“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
“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
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“We’ll be Friends Forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet.
Even longer,’ Pooh answered.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“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.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“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.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“I used to believe in forever, but forever’s too good to be true”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“I’m not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“I don’t feel very much like Pooh today,” said Pooh.
“There there,” said Piglet. “I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“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.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“I wonder what Piglet is doing,” thought Pooh.
“I wish I were there to be doing it, too.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“What I like doing best is Nothing.”
“How do you do Nothing,” asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time.
“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.
It means just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”
“Oh!” said Pooh.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-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.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“Rabbit’s clever,” said Pooh thoughtfully.
“Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit’s clever.”
“And he has Brain.”
“Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit has Brain.”
There was a long silence.
“I suppose,” said Pooh, “that that’s why he never understands anything.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“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.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“Think, think, think.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“Think it over, think it under.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“I did know once, only I’ve sort of forgotten.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“Bother.”
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh