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"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh?' he whispered.
'Yes, Piglet?'
'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

tags: friendship
3,175 people liked it

"'I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.'"
— A.A. Milne

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"You never can tell with bees."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

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

tags: character, food, potatoes
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"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
— A.A. Milne

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"I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

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"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"

"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"

"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.

Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said."
— A.A. Milne

158 people liked it

"One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries."
— A.A. Milne

tags: discovery, eccentric, life
130 people liked it

"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."
— A.A. Milne

137 people liked it

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

291 people liked it

"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. I'll always be with you."
— A.A. Milne

tags: confidence
754 people liked it

"'We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
'Even longer,' Pooh answered."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

tags: friendship
785 people liked it

"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."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

tags: friendship
2,498 people liked it

"You've got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets."
— Joan Bauer (Hope Was Here)

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"You don't know which way a thing will come at you, but you need to welcome it with your whole heart which ever way it arrives."
— Joan Bauer (Hope Was Here)

6 people liked it

"He made me love him without looking at me."
— Charlotte Brontë

tags: love
131 people liked it

"Am I hideous, Jane?

Very, sir: you always were, you know.
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— Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

12 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,702 people liked it

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
— Jane Austen

tags: friends, humor, people
2,275 people liked it

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: husband, marriage, wife
868 people liked it

"In vain have I struggled but it will not do, my feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you, how much I love and admire you."
— Jane Austen

352 people liked it

"But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
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— Jane Austen (Mansfield Park)

4 people liked it

"To love would be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

tags: adventure, love
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"To die will be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

109 people liked it

"Would you like a cough drop Dolores?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: humor
18 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
15,261 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,500 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
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"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
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"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,633 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,584 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,883 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,769 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,831 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
6,493 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,778 people liked it

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
4,882 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,942 people liked it

"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: betrayal, friends
719 people liked it

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: mothers, women
586 people liked it

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth
497 people liked it

"No good deed goes unpunished."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor
352 people liked it

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: bad, charming, good, tedious
357 people liked it

"The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, suspense
222 people liked it

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: humor
201 people liked it

"Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them."
— Oscar Wilde

89 people liked it

"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."
— Oscar Wilde

69 people liked it

"She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm."
— Oscar Wilde

56 people liked it

""The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.""
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens)

87 people liked it

"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."
— J.M. Barrie

64 people liked it

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