Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.

One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows.

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!

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.

What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.

When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.