It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was in the open again ... and then his ears ... and then his front paws ... and then his shoulders ... and then-'Oh, help!' said Pooh, 'I'd better go back,' 'Oh bother!' said Pooh, 'I shall have to go on.' 'I can't do either!' said Pooh, 'Oh help and bother!

Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.

Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."