The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows.

Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.

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

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

Oh Tigger, where are your manners?" "I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.

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.