Selected Quotes By Winnie the Pooh
"I wonder what Piglet is doing,” thought Pooh. “I wish I were there to be doing it, too."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness, Friendship
"Piglet: “How do you spell ‘love’?” Pooh: “You don’t spell it…you feel it."
Winnie the Pooh, Love
"I always get to where I’m going by walking away from where I have been."
Winnie the Pooh, Goals
"Promise you won’t forget me ever?"
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"What’s wrong with knowing what you know now and not knowing what you don’t know until later?"
Winnie the Pooh, Intelligence/Wisdom
"I’m never afraid with you."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"I always said Tiggers could climb trees. Not that it’s easy, mind you. Of course, there’s the coming-down too. Which will be difficult unless one fell, when it would be easy."
Winnie the Pooh, Life
"If it’s not Here, that means it’s out There."
Winnie the Pooh, Intelligence/Wisdom
"It’s so much more friendly with two."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"It isn’t much good having anything exciting, if you can’t share it with somebody."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness, Friendship
"What could be more important than a little something to eat?"
Winnie the Pooh, Eating
"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."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"Tiggers never go on being sad."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"Yesterday, when it was tomorrow, it was too exciting a day for me."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"If people are upset because you’ve forgotten something, console them by letting them know you didn’t forget—you just weren’t remembering."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"Love is taking a few steps backward maybe even more to give way to the happiness of the person you love."
Winnie the Pooh, Love
"If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn’t involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head."
Winnie the Pooh, Life
"I am short, fat, and proud of that."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"Could be worse. Not sure how, but it could be."
Winnie the Pooh, Problems
"We’ll be Friends Forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet. ‘Even longer,’ Pooh answered."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it."
Winnie the Pooh, Intelligence/Wisdom
"If the string breaks, then we try another piece of string."
Winnie the Pooh, Life
"Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering."
Winnie the Pooh, Intelligence/Wisdom
"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."
Winnie the Pooh, Intelligence/Wisdom
"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."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?"
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"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."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"What I like best is just doing nothing."
Winnie the Pooh, Goals
"Oh, bother."
Winnie the Pooh, Problems
"The most important thing is, even when we’re apart … I’ll always be with you …"
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think."
Winnie the Pooh, Courage, Intelligence/Wisdom
"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."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them."
Winnie the Pooh, Life
"Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake."
Winnie the Pooh, Life
"You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"I’m so rumbly in my tumbly."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"I wonder how many wishes a star can give."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"I’m just a little black rain cloud, hovering under the honey tree."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"The things that make me different are the things that make me, me."
Winnie the Pooh, Life
"I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost."
Winnie the Pooh, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Some people care too much. I think it’s called love."
Winnie the Pooh, Love
"Could you spare a small smackerel?"
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"The most wonderful thing about Tiggers is, I’m the only one."
Winnie the Pooh, Life
"Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So, today is my new favorite day."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is to not let the bees know you’re coming."
Winnie the Pooh, Anger and Fighting
"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."
Winnie the Pooh, Life
"I did mean a little larger small helping."
Winnie the Pooh, Eating
"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like, ‘What about lunch?"
Winnie the Pooh, Eating
"Christopher Robin! Will you kindly shake your umbrella and say ‘tut tut it looks like rain!’?"
Winnie the Pooh, Problems
"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."
Winnie the Pooh, Kindness
"A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"A hug is always the right size."
Winnie the Pooh, Love
"If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so that I never have to live a day without you."
Winnie the Pooh, Love
"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."
Winnie the Pooh, Goals
"A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference."
Winnie the Pooh, Society
"I wasn’t going to eat it, I was just going to taste it."
Winnie the Pooh, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Think it over, think it under."
Winnie the Pooh, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
Winnie the Pooh, Love
"After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there some day."