"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh?' he whispered.<br />
'Yes, Piglet?'<br />
'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"
"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."
"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."
"'We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.<br />
'Even longer,' Pooh answered."
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
"Some people care too much. I think it's called love."
"Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time."
"You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."
"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like 'What about lunch?'"
"Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave."
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
"One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries."
"'When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,' said Piglet at last, 'what's the first thing you say to yourself?'<br />
<br />
'What's for breakfast?' said Pooh. 'What do you say, Piglet?'<br />
<br />
'I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?' said Piglet.<br />
<br />
Pooh nodded thoughtfully. 'It's the same thing,' he said."
"Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?"
"If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear."
"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known."
"The things that make me different are the things that make me."
"'It's snowing still,' said Eeyore gloomily.<br />
'So it is.'<br />
'And freezing.'<br />
'Is it?'<br />
'Yes,' said Eeyore. 'However,' he said, brightening up a little, 'we haven't had an earthquake lately."
"'Oh Tigger, where are your manners?'<br />
<br />
'I don't know, but I bet they're having more fun than I am.'"
"I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true."
"I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost."
"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."
"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day."
"Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem."
"'Well,' said Pooh, 'what I like best,' and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called."
"When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen."
"A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself."
"'What I like doing best is Nothing.'<br />
<br />
'How do you do Nothing,' asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time.<br />
<br />
'Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it.'<br />
<br />
'It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.'<br />
<br />
'Oh!' said Pooh."
"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."
"What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow."
"Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo."
"To the uneducated an A is just three sticks."
"Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have."
"'Hallo, Rabbit,' he said, 'is that you?'<br />
<br />
'Let's pretend it isn't,' said Rabbit, 'and see what happens.'"
"'I don't see much sense in that,' said Rabbit.<br />
'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.'"
"'Pooh,' said Rabbit kindly, 'you haven't any brain.'
'I know,' said Pooh humbly."
"It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it."
"'What day is it?'<br />
'It's today,' squeaked Piglet.<br />
'My favorite day,' said Pooh."
"When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."
"A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise."
"Think it over, think it under."
"Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere."
"I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget."
"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."
"Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon."
"Bother."
"Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one!"
"For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me."
"'Rabbit's clever,' said Pooh thoughtfully.<br />
'Yes,' said Piglet, 'Rabbit's clever.'<br />
'And he has Brain.'<br />
'Yes,' said Piglet, 'Rabbit has Brain.'"<br />
There was a long silence.<br />
'I suppose,' said Pooh, 'that that's why he never understands anything.'"
"People who don't think probably don't have brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake."
"Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up."
"Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is."
"Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake."
"'Good morning, Eeyore,' said Pooh.<br />
'Good morning, Pooh Bear,' said Eeyore gloomily. 'If it is a good morning, which I doubt,' said he.<br />
'Why, what's the matter?'<br />
'Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it.'
'Can't all what?' said Pooh, rubbing his nose.
'Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.'"
"But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two."
"The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, 'Why?' and sometimes he thought, 'Wherefore?' and sometimes he thought, 'Inasmuch as which?' and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about."
"You never can tell with bees."
"'I might have known,' said Eeyore. 'After all, one can't complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said 'Bother!'. The Social Round. Always something going on."
"Halfway down the stairs, is a stair, where I sit. There isn't any, other stair, quite like, it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top; So this is the stair, where, I always, stop. Halfway up the stairs, isn't up, and isn't down. It isn't in the nursery, it isn't in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts, run round my head: It isn't really anywhere! It's somewhere else instead!"
"'But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you."
"To her -<br />
Hand in hand we come<br />
Christopher Robin and I<br />
To lay this book in your lap.<br />
Say you're surprised?<br />
Say you like it?<br />
Say it's just what you wanted?<br />
Because it's yours -<br />
because we love you."
"Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing."
"But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever."
"'Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!' said Piglet, feeling him.<br />
Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time."
"We can't all and some of us don't. That's all there is to it."
"On Tuesday, when it hails and snows,<br />
The feeling on me grows and grows<br />
That hardly anybody knows<br />
If those are these or these are those."
"No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature."
"One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows. The young man gives it to the girl with whom he is in love, and, if she does not like it, asks her to return his letters. The older man tries it on his nephew, and alters his will accordingly. The book is a test of character. We can't criticize it, because it is criticizing us. But I must give you one word of warning. When you sit down to it, don't be so ridiculous as to suppose that you are sitting in judgment on my taste, or on the art of Kenneth Grahame. You are merely sitting in judgment on yourself. You may be worthy: I don't know, But it is you who are on trial."
"Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two."
"'What do you like doing best in the world, Pooh?'<br />
'Well,' said Pooh, 'what I like best - ' and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. And then he thought that being with Christopher Robin was a very good thing to do, and having Piglet near was a very friendly thing to have; and so, when he had thought it all out, he said, 'What I like best in the whole world is Me and Piglet going to see You, and You saying 'What about a little something?' and Me saying, 'Well, I shouldn't mind a little something, should you, Piglet,' and it being a hummy sort of day outside, and birds singing.'<br />
'I like that too,' said Christopher Robin, 'but what I like doing best is Nothing.'
"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."
"'What do you say, Pooh?'
Pooh opened his eyes with a jerk and said, 'Extremely.'
'Extremely what?' asked Rabbit.
'What you were saying,' said Pooh. 'Undoubtably.'"
"'That's right,' said Eeyore. 'Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself.'
'I am,' said Pooh."
"He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him."
"I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten."
"sometimes i sits and thinks, and sometimes i just sits.."
"If people ask me,<br />
I always tell them:<br />
'Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say.'<br />
If people ask me,<br />
I always answer,<br />
'Quite well, thank you, how are you today?'<br />
I always answer,<br />
I always tell them,<br />
If they ask me<br />
Politely...<br />
BUT SOMETIMES<br />
I wish<br />
<br />
That they wouldn't."
"But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it."
"And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop."
"When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there."
"A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards."
"He respects owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right."
"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!"
"It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal."
"In a very little time they got to the corner of the field by the side of the pine wood where Eeyore's house wasn't any longer.<br />
'There!' said Eeyore. 'Not a stick of it left! Of course, I've still got all this snow to do what I like with. One mustn't complain.'"
"When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said 'The what of a what?' which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is."
"Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness."
"'Hallo, Eeyore.'<br />
'Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays,' said Eeyore gloomily.
Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house."
"And that, said John, is that."
"If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever."
"We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see"
"She turned to the sunlight<br />
And shook her yellow head,<br />
And whispered to her neighbor:<br />
'Winter is dead.'"
"Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter."
"The spring has sprung, the grass is rizz. I wonder where them birdies is?"
"Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being."
"It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all."
"It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the Forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying to Pooh, 'Don't listen to Rabbit, listen to me.' So he got in a comfortable position for not listening to Rabbit."
"James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all."
"'WHERE did you say it was?' asked Pooh.<br />
'Just here,' said Eeyore.<br />
'Made of sticks?'<br />
'Yes'<br />
'Oh!' said Piglet.<br />
'What?' said Eeyore.<br />
'I just said 'Oh!'' said Piglet nervously. And so as to seem quite at ease he hummed Tiddely-pom once or twice in a what-shall-we-do-now kind of way."
"Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about."
"'How do you spell 'love'?' - Piglet<br />
'You don't spell it...you feel it.' - Pooh"
"My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places."
"'I don't feel very much like Pooh today,' said Pooh.<br />
<br />
'There there,' said Piglet. 'I'll bring you tea and honey until you do.'"
"'I wonder what Piglet is doing,' thought Pooh.<br />
'I wish I were there to be doing it, too.'
"So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book."
"When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way."
"But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer."
"His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know."
"She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her."
"'I always did whatever I liked,' she said, 'but now I really can do it.'"
"The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh:<br />
'I suppose all these people know better than I.'<br />
It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view<br />
Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue)."
"'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.'"
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
A. A. Milne