“If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.”

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”

“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.”

“When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.”

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”

“When speaking to a Bear of Very Little Brain, remember that long words may bother him.”

“We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.”