Quotes from Winnie-the-Pooh

A.A. Milne ·  145 pages

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“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from Winnie-the-Pooh


“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from Winnie-the-Pooh



“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from 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, quote from Winnie-the-Pooh


“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”
― A.A. Milne, quote from Winnie-the-Pooh


“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from Winnie-the-Pooh


“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from Winnie-the-Pooh


“I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from Winnie-the-Pooh


“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from Winnie-the-Pooh



“Think it over, think it under.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from Winnie-the-Pooh


“It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from Winnie-the-Pooh


“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from Winnie-the-Pooh


“I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from Winnie-the-Pooh


“Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain."
"I know," said Pooh humbly.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from Winnie-the-Pooh



“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from Winnie-the-Pooh


“You never can tell with bees.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from Winnie-the-Pooh


“There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said "Nobody.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from Winnie-the-Pooh


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A.A. Milne
Born place: in Hampstead, London, England, The United Kingdom
Born date January 18, 1882
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