'A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.'

'They wanted to come in after the pounds', explained Pooh, 'so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.'

'What I like doing best is nothing. It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.'

'That's what Jagulars always do', said Pooh, much interested. 'They call 'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they drop on you.'

The cliche organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.