Top 100 Pooh's Quotes
#1. 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.
A.A. Milne
#2. 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.
A.A. Milne
#3. 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.
A.A. Milne
#4. 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
A.A. Milne
#5. A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
A.A. Milne
#6. 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.
A.A. Milne
#7. Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.
A.A. Milne
#8. Pooh! away with love! Nay, my dear, we loved each other so dearly we should never have been happy with any one else; but that's a different thing. People aren't like what they were when we were young. All the love nowadays is just silly fancy, and sentimental romance, as far as I can see.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#9. "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked.
"Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said.
"It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh ," he said.
"It is," I said.
"That's not about Taoism," he said.
"Oh, yes it is," I said."
Benjamin Hoff
#10. They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.
Kary Mullis
#11. Sometimes at drive-thrus I go into Winnie the Pooh and ask for a jar of honey.
Jim Cummings
#12. 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.
A.A. Milne
#13. I would love having Winnie-the-Pooh stay here at the house. We could talk of food and what we were eating next. Maybe ponder that over a little morsel ... and then take a little nap and dream of desserts.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#15. Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. Milne
#16. And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.
A.A. Milne
#17. 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
Susana Gordon
#18. My kids are too old to remember this now but, when they were much younger, I swore to them if this miracle ever happened, I would receive it in the spirit of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh, and thats what that was.
Danny Boyle
#19. Pooh and Piglet were sitting together over breakfast at that pleasant time of the day when you know that there is much to be done but not quite yet.
David Benedictus
#20. I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side, the moment all of the cameras come alive with that motion, it was like a dream come true. It enables people to economically experiment with film.
Russell James
#21. This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.
Larry Bird
#22. The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.
Alan Watts
#23. While Eeyore frets ... and Piglet hesitates ... and Rabbit calculates ... and Owl pontificates ... Pooh just is.
Benjamin Hoff
#24. Those who think that the rewarding things in life are somewhere over the rainbow 'burn their toast a lot,' said Pooh
Benjamin Hoff
#25. If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.
A.A. Milne
#26. There's something very disconcerting about a sock with Winnie the Pooh on it wriggling and squirming about my knicker drawer. Looking for its honey pot.
Andrea Bramhall
#27. 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.
A.A. Milne
#28. What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh.
A.A. Milne
#29. I think [Winnie the Pooh] just looks at the world through honey-colored glasses, and everything is honey-fied and sweet for him, and that's not a bad outlook.
Jim Cummings
#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.
A.A. Milne
#31. Sing 'Hey to you - good-day to you'
Sing 'Bah to you - ha! ha! to you'
Sing 'Booh to you - pooh, pooh to you'
And that's what you should say!
W.S. Gilbert
#32. She's like Eeyore if Eeyore hung out with goats all the time instead of letting Pooh and Piglet cheer him up.
Rainbow Rowell
#33. 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.
A.A. Milne
#34. 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?
A.A. Milne
#35. No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.
A.A. Milne
#36. 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.
A.A. Milne
#37. What day is it?', asked Winnie the Pooh.
'It's today,' squeaked Piglet.
'My favorite day,' said Pooh."
- The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
A.A. Milne
#38. Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal.
Mary Karr
#39. 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.
A.A. Milne
#40. 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.
Benjamin Hoff
#41. 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.
A.A. Milne
#42. 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.
A.A. Milne
#43. Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
A.A. Milne
#44. Nike's the worst counselor in the history of Saint Aloysius, but he's not Pooh. And as much as Pooh is my least favorite of the homies who come to Q's storefront, spending time with him there has reminded me that Pooh isn't just Pooh either.
Sofia Quintero
#45. 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.
A.A. Milne
#46. Hallo, Rabbit," he said, "is that you?"
"Let's pretend it isn't," said Rabbit, "and see what happens.
A.A. Milne
#47. 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.
A.A. Milne
#48. It was months later when I was sitting at the board in my studio and my wife would stick her head in and say, "What if you did Pooh and ... oh, we don't do that anymore." I do have my soapbox and will go to my grave being a Disney company man.
Mike Royer
#49. Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.
C.S. Lewis
#50. 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.
A.A. Milne
#51. Pooh, he's a ninkypoop!" "How do you know?" asked Jane, very interested. "I know because I heard Daddy call him one this morning!" said Michael, and he laughed at Andrew very rudely. "He is not a nincompoop," said Mary Poppins. "And that is that.
P.L. Travers
#52. We've got to get these guys to Bubba's. Anyone got a clue how to do it? (Nick) They gotta be breathing? (Simi) Yes. (Nick and Caleb) Well, pooh. That just takes all the fun out of it. (Simi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#53. One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries
A.A. Milne
#54. Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.
A.A. Milne
#55. 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.
A.A. Milne
#56. 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
#57. And tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?
Jack Kerouac
#58. If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them, said Pooh.
Benjamin Hoff
#59. I found that the majority of people who stopped at my table [ at the Comic Con] last didn't even know who Winnie the Pooh was, and the new feature was just opening in the theaters.
Mike Royer
#60. Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
A.A. Milne
#61. 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.
A.A. Milne
#63. 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.
A.A. Milne
#64. They had the magic pill, the solution to the inertia and frustration that has plagued the great literary protagonists I'd related to all my life - be it Leopold Bloom, Alex Portnoy, or Piglet from Winnie the Pooh. As
Neil Strauss
#65. 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
#66. I would do Winnie the Pooh. We would live in the tree house. We would hunt for honey.
Jerusha Hess
#67. I felt like Winnie the Pooh trying to squeeze into the honey tree.
Jamie McGuire
#68. From the very moment of Kanga's appearance the pastoral playground is overshadowed by doubt and guilt, for the all-too-loving anima-Woman has pitched her temple here!
Frederick C. Crews
#69. Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
A.A. Milne
#70. I played Winnie the Pooh in first grade. I was an early adopter of standing in front of people and looking like an idiot.
Jon Hamm
#71. 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.
A.A. Milne
#72. "I just like to know," said Pooh humbly.
A.A. Milne
#73. Sterling Holloway, the actor who had originally voiced Pooh, decided to retire in the mid-1980s. Disney decided that they wanted to continue this character with their 'New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh' TV series.
Jim Cummings
#74. Oh Tigger, where are your manners?"
"I don't know, but I bet they're having more fun than I am.
A.A. Milne
#75. 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.
A.A. Milne
#76. It's 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
Tony Hsieh
#77. I'm Winnie the Pooh - that's as sexy as I am. I meet ladies and they talk about their family and I talk about my family. It's about as sexy as a bag of Brussel sprouts.
Bob Hoskins
#78. It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come. -Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A. Milne
#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.
A.A. Milne
#80. Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A.A. Milne
#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.
A.A. Milne
#82. Oh, Bear!" said Christopher Robin. "How I do love you!" "So do I," said Pooh.
A.A. Milne
#83. It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
Dorothy Parker
#84. 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.
A.A. Milne
#85. Everything quiet?"
"You mean Shame"
"I mean your Pooh News. Any rumblies in the tumblies?" I gave him a grin.
He shook his head. "You just can't let that go, can you? ...
Devon Monk
#86. But there was nothing on the back of the door, except the screws and nuts that held the knocker on, so he said "Pooh, pooh!" and closed it with a bang.
Charles Dickens
#87. You are braver than you believe,
Stronger than you seem,
And smarter than you think(:
A.A. Milne
#88. But with whom, in the Pooh world, could a sexually and politically aroused Kanga speak?
Frederick C. Crews
#89. All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.
Robert Byron
#90. 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.
A.A. Milne
#91. 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!
Milne, A. A.
#92. I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.
Al Yankovic
#93. HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY. Pooh
A.A. Milne
#94. Pooh hater,' I muttered under my breath.
'Winnie-the-Pooh was not a koala
why am I even arguing about this with you?
Rob Thurman
#95. That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself."
"I am," said Pooh.
A.A. Milne
#96. Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.
Christopher Bram
#98. Cold is not without its risks to runners, of course, especially ones who don't head south when winter visits their neighborhood. Even pooh-pooh-ers of frozen lungs and lovers of dark jogs over permafrost have been known to be careful about certain hazards.
Don Kardong
#99. 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.
A.A. Milne
#100. 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
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