Top 82 Milne Pooh Quotes
#1. You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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#2. What day is it?', asked Winnie the Pooh.
'It's today,' squeaked Piglet.
'My favorite day,' said Pooh."
- The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
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#3. 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.
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#4. Well, did Owl always have a letter-box in his ceiling?"
"Has he?"
"Yes, look."
"I can't," said Pooh. "I'm face downwards under something, and that, Piglet, is a very bad position for looking at ceilings."
"Well, he has, Pooh."
"Perhaps he's changed it," said Pooh. "Just for a change.
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#5. I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too.
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#6. Pooh, how do you spell love?' 'You don't spell love Piglet, you feel it
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#7. So wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
"What would I do?" I said to Pooh,
"If it wasn't for you," and Pooh said to me: "True,
It isn't much fun for One, but Two
Can stick together," says Pooh, says he.
"That's how it is," says Pooh.
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#8. I do remember,' explained Christopher Robin, 'only Pooh doesn't very well, so that's why he likes having it told to him again. Because then it's a real story and not just a remembering.
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#9. Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
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#10. NOTPOHL
Endtegt vohn
PU
PU had in
gefuhnden
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#11. Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin. "Well," he said slowly.
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#12. Christopher Robin nodded. "Then there's only one thing to be done," he said. "We shall have to wait for you to get thin again." "How long does getting thin take?" asked Pooh anxiously. "About a week, I should think.
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#13. You are stronger than you seem,
Braver than you believe,
and smarter than you think you are.
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#14. Do go and see, Owl. Because Pooh hasn't got very much brain, and he might do something silly, and I do love him so, Owl. Do you see, Owl?
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#15. Would you mind coming with me, Piglet, in case they turn out to be Hostile Animals?
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#16. Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it ... you feel it."
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#17. Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought.
Piglet was comforted by this.
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#18. What I like doing best is Nothing.
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#19. To her-
Hand in hand we come
Christopher Robin and I
To lay this book in your lap.
Say you're surprised?
Say you like it?
Say it's just what you wanted?
Because it's yours-
because we love you.
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#20. We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.
Winnie-the-Pooh
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#21. Hallo, Rabbit," he said, "is that you?"
"Let's pretend it isn't," said Rabbit, "and see what happens.
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#22. You gave me Christopher Robin, and then
You breathed new life in Pooh.
Whatever of each has left my pen
Goes homing back to you.
My book is ready, and comes to greet
The mother it longs to see
It would be my present to you, my sweet,
If it weren't your gift to me.
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#23. Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.
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#24. What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh.
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#25. Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain."
"I know," said Pooh humbly.
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#26. Did I miss?" you asked.
"You didn't exactly miss," said Pooh, "But you missed the balloon."
"I'm so sorry," you said, and you fired again, and this time you hit the balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground.
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#27. Oh, Kanga," said Pooh, after Rabbit had winked at him twice, "I don't know if you are interested in Poetry at all?" "Hardly at all," said Kanga.
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#28. 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.
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#29. Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look ready for Anything.
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#30. That's what Jagulars always do," said Pooh, much interested. "They call 'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they drop on you."
"I'm looking down," cried Piglet loudly, so as the Jagular shouldn't do the wrong thing by accident.
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#31. When speaking to a Bear of Very Little Brain, remember that long words may bother him.
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#32. We can't all, and some of us don't.
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#33. Pooh felt that he ought to say something helpful about it, but didn't quite know what.
So he decided to do something helpful instead.
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#34. And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself,
"it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "which it is," he added. "so there you are.
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#35. It's your fault, Eeyore. You've never been to see any of us. You just stay here in this one corner of the Forest waiting for the others to come to you. Why don't you go to THEM sometimes?
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#36. 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.
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#37. If you only live to be 100 than I want to live to be 100 minus one day so I never have to live without you...from whinnie the pooh
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#38. I wasn't afraid," said Pooh, said he, "I'm never afraid with you.
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#39. How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet
"You don't spell it ... you feel it." - Pooh
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#40. No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.
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#41. It all comes," said Pooh crossly, "of not having front doors big enough.
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#42. WHERE did you say it was?' asked Pooh.
Just here,' said Eeyore.
Made of sticks?'
Yes'
Oh!' said Piglet.
What?' said Eeyore.
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.
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#43. You are braver than you believe,
Stronger than you seem,
And smarter than you think(:
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#44. I have been Foolish and Deluded," said he, "and I am a Bear of No Brain at All." "You're the Best Bear in All the World," said Christopher Robin soothingly. "Am I?" said Pooh hopefully. And then he brightened up suddenly. "Anyhow," he said, "it is nearly Luncheon Time." So he went home for it.
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#45. 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!
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#46. HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY. Pooh
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#47. That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself."
"I am," said Pooh.
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#48. 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.
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#49. 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.
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#50. 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.
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#51. One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries
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#52. Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.
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#53. There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
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#54. 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.
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#55. Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
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#56. 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.
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#58. Piglet thought that they ought to have a Reason for going to see everybody, like Looking for Small or Organizing an Expotition, if Pooh could think of something.
Pooh could.
"We'll go because it's Thursday," he said, "and we'll go to wish everybody a Very Happy Thursday. Come on, Piglet.
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#59. Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
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#60. Let's look for dragons, I said to Pooh.
Yes, let's, said Pooh to Me.
We crossed the river and found a few
Yes, those are dragons all right, said Pooh.
As soon as I saw their beaks I knew.
That's what they are, said Pooh, said he.
That's what they are, said Pooh.
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#61. "I just like to know," said Pooh humbly.
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#62. Oh Tigger, where are your manners?"
"I don't know, but I bet they're having more fun than I am.
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#63. Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
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#64. How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively.
'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar,' Piglet replied.
'You mean to die?' asked Pooh.
'Yes and no,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on.
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#65. Hallo, Eeyore."
"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.
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#66. Wherever I am, there's always Pooh, There's always Pooh and Me. Whatever I do, he wants to do, "Where are you going today?" says Pooh: "Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too. Let's go together," says Pooh, says he. "Let's go together," says Pooh.
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#67. For some time now Pooh had been saying "Yes" and "No" in turn, with his eyes shut, to all that Owl was saying, and having said, "Yes, yes," last time, he said "No, not at all," now, without really knowing what Owl was talking about.
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#68. On Wednesday, when the sky is blue,
and I have nothing else to do,
I sometimes wonder if it's true
That who is what and what is who.
- Winnie-the-Pooh
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#69. A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
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#70. And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh.
Eeyore shook his head from side to side.
"Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time."
"Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I'm sorry about that. Let's have a look at you.
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#71. Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.
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#72. Well, if you listen, Piglet, you'll hear it."
"How do you know I'm not listening?" Pooh couldn't answer that one, so he began to sing.
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#73. 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.
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#74. And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.
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#75. You are braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
From A. A. Milne, author of Winnie-the-Pooh
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#76. Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.
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#77. If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.
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#78. It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come. -Winnie-the-Pooh
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#79. And then we'll go out, Piglet, and sing my song to Eeyore."
"Which song, Pooh?"
"The one we're going to sing to Eeyore," explained Pooh.
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#80. Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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#81. 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.
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#82. Oh, Bear!" said Christopher Robin. "How I do love you!" "So do I," said Pooh.
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