A. A. Milne

I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

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.

I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.

Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."

Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.

Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.

When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.

Forever isn't long at all, Christopher, as long as I'm with you.

Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred.

They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.

The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.

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

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.

Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.

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.

What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh.

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.