It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

Brains first and then Hard Work.

It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.

A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.

She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.

The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.