Pooh’s Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne

You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

One dog barks at something. And a hundred dogs bark at the sound.

Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?

By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a noble animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward-you will never get her full confidence again.

The more I know about people, the more I like dogs. I simply like animals.

Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.

The more I learn about people, the better I like my dog.