"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)

"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)

"'We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
'Even longer,' Pooh answered."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"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."
— A.A. Milne

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
— A.A. Milne

"'Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.'"
— A.A. Milne

"Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?"
— A.A. Milne

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"

"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"

"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.

Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said."
— A.A. Milne

"Some people care too much. I think it's called love."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
— A.A. Milne

"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."
— A.A. Milne

"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."
— A.A. Milne

"One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries."
— A.A. Milne

"What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes,
he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow."
— A.A. Milne

"Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave."
— A.A. Milne

"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)

"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)

"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)

"A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself."
— A.A. Milne

"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)

"'It's snowing still,' said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is"
"And freezing"
"Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.""
— A.A. Milne

"Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.
- Eeyore"
— 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)

"You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count."
— A.A. Milne

"'I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"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.'"
— A.A. Milne

"I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget."
— A.A. Milne

"Think, think, think."
— 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)

"“…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)

""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)

"“Oh Tigger, where are your manners?”

“I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.”"
— A.A. Milne

"Sometimes it’s the smallish things that take up the most room in our hearts."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"TTFN Ta Ta For Now!
- Tigger"
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
- Tigger"
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"Friendship, said Christopher Robin, is a very comforting thing to have."
— A.A. Milne

"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."
— A.A. Milne

"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)

"Christopher Robin, to Pooh Bear: You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think."
— A.A. Milne

"For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.
~Winnie-the-Pooh"
— A.A. Milne

"“Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?”

“Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens.”"
— A.A. Milne

"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."
— A.A. Milne

"Bother."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

""Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh.
"Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he.
"Why, what's the matter?"
"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.""
— A.A. Milne

"Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is."
— A.A. Milne

"Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it’s not all mixed up.
- Christopher Robin"
— A.A. Milne

"Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere."
— A.A. Milne

"Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake."
— A.A. Milne