197 Winnie the Pooh Quotes: Wisdom from the Hundred Acre Wood

Winnie the Pooh Quotes on Friendship

1. “Let’s go and see everybody,” said Pooh. “Because when you’ve been walking in the wind for miles, and you suddenly go into somebody’s house, and he says, ‘Hallo, Pooh, you’re just in time for a little smackerel of something,’ and you are, then it’s what I call a Friendly Day. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
2. “We’ll go because it’s Thursday,” he said, “and we’ll go to wish everybody a Very Happy Thursday.” — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
3. This warm and sunny Spot / Belongs to Pooh. / And here he wonders what / He’s going to do. / Oh, bother, I forgot— / It’s Piglet’s too. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
4. “That,” said Piglet, “is a Grand Idea. Where shall we build it?” — Piglet, The House at Pooh Corner
5. “He’s out,” said Pooh sadly. “That’s what it is. He’s not in. I shall have to go a fast Thinking Walk by myself. Bother!” — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
6. “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.” — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
7. “It’s just Eeyore,” said Piglet. “I thought your Idea was a very good Idea.” — Piglet, The House at Pooh Corner
8. Pooh and Piglet walked home thoughtfully together in the golden evening, and for a long time they were silent. — A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
9. Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
10. “Never mind, Pooh,” said Piglet comfortingly. “Another time perhaps.” — Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh
11. “Oh, Tigger, I am glad to see you,” cried Rabbit. — Rabbit, The House at Pooh Corner
12. “We’ll go and look for it at once,” he called out to Eeyore. — Christopher Robin, The House at Pooh Corner
13. “We just came to see you,” said Piglet. “And to see how your house was.” — Piglet, The House at Pooh Corner

Winnie the Pooh Quotes on Love

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, The House at Pooh Corner
2. “Pooh, promise you won’t forget about me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.” Pooh thought for a little. “How old shall I be then?” “Ninety-nine.” Pooh nodded. “I promise,” he said. — Christopher Robin, The House at Pooh Corner
3. Still with his eyes on the world Christopher Robin put out a hand and felt for Pooh’s paw. — A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
4. “Pooh, whatever happens, you will understand, won’t you?” — Christopher Robin, The House at Pooh Corner
5. “Oh, Bear!” said Christopher Robin. “How I do love you!” “So do I,” said Pooh. — Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh
6. Hand in hand we come / Christopher Robin and I / To lay this book in your lap. — A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
7. You gave me Christopher Robin, and then / You breathed new life in Pooh. — A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
8. “You’re the Best Bear in All the World,” said Christopher Robin soothingly. “Am I?” said Pooh hopefully. — Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh
9. “Yes, Pooh, I will be, really. I promise I will be, Pooh.” — Christopher Robin, The House at Pooh Corner
10. “Pooh, when I’m—you know—when I’m not doing Nothing, will you come up here sometimes?” — Christopher Robin, The House at Pooh Corner
11. Because it’s yours— / Because we love you. — A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
12. “Where?” said Pooh. “Anywhere,” said Christopher Robin. — Christopher Robin, The House at Pooh Corner

Winnie the Pooh Quotes on Wisdom

1. I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
2. 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, The House at Pooh Corner
3. “Well,” said Pooh, “we keep looking for Home and not finding it, so I thought that if we looked for this Pit, we’d be sure not to find it, which would be a Good Thing, because then we might find something that we weren’t looking for, which might be just what we were looking for, really.” — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
4. “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 on the way.” — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
5. “I like that too,” said Christopher Robin, “but what I like doing best is Nothing.” — Christopher Robin, The House at Pooh Corner
6. “How do you do Nothing?” asked Pooh, after he had wondered for a long time. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
7. “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.” — Christopher Robin, The House at Pooh Corner
8. “It means just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” — Christopher Robin, The House at Pooh Corner
9. My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
10. A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference. — Eeyore, Winnie-the-Pooh
11. There is no hurry. We shall get there some day. — A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
12. “Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?” “Supposing it didn’t,” said Pooh after careful thought. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
13. “I’ve got a sort of idea,” said Pooh at last, “but I don’t suppose it’s a very good one.” — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
14. 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, The House at Pooh Corner

Winnie the Pooh Quotes on Childhood

1. When I was One, / I had just begun. / When I was Two, / I was nearly new. — A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six
2. But now I am Six, I’m as clever as clever, / So I think I’ll be six now for ever and ever. — A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six
3. Halfway down the stairs / Is a stair / Where I sit. — A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
4. James James / Morrison Morrison / Weatherby George Dupree / Took great / Care of his Mother, / Though he was only three. — A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
5. What is the matter with Mary Jane? She’s perfectly well, and she hasn’t a pain. — A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
6. They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace— / Christopher Robin went down with Alice. — A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
7. The King asked / The Queen, and / The Queen asked / The Dairymaid: / “Could we have some butter for / The Royal slice of bread?” — A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
8. Wherever I am, there’s always Pooh, / There’s always Pooh and Me. — A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six
9. I found a little beetle, so that Beetle was his name, / And I called him Alexander and he answered just the same. — A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six
10. Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. — A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
11. Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders. — A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
12. When I first heard his name, I said, just as you are going to say, “But I thought he was a boy?” — A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
13. Christopher Robin had spent the morning indoors going to Africa and back. — A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
14. So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing. — A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

Winnie the Pooh Quotes on Honey & Simple Joys

1. Isn’t it funny / How a bear likes honey? / Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! / I wonder why he does? — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
2. The more it snows / (Tiddely pom), / The more it goes / (Tiddely pom), / The more it goes / (Tiddely pom), / On snowing. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
3. Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie, / A fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly. / Ask me a riddle and I reply: / “Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.” — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
4. How sweet to be a Cloud / Floating in the Blue! — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
5. Tut-tut, it looks like rain. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
6. Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o’clock in the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs. — A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
7. “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 to-day?” said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing,” he said. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
8. It’s a very funny thought that, if Bears were Bees, / They’d build their nests at the bottom of trees. / And that being so, if the Bees were Bears, / We shouldn’t have to climb up all these stairs. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
9. Tiggers don’t like honey. — Tigger, The House at Pooh Corner
10. What I like best in the whole world is Me and Piglet going to see You, and You saying “What about a little something?” and Me saying, “Well, I shouldn’t mind a little something, should you, Piglet,” and it being a hummy sort of day outside, and birds singing. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
11. 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, The House at Pooh Corner
12. There are twelve pots of honey in my cupboard, and they’ve been calling to me for hours. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
13. And that was the beginning of the game called Poohsticks, which Pooh invented. — A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
14. Here is a myst’ry / About a little fir-tree. / Owl says it’s his tree, / And Kanga says it’s her tree. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner

Piglet’s Courage: Winnie the Pooh Quotes

1. “It is hard to be brave,” said Piglet, sniffing slightly, “when you’re only a Very Small Animal.” — Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh
2. “It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us.” — Rabbit, Winnie-the-Pooh
3. Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful, that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once. — A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
4. “Help! Help!” cried Piglet. “A Heffalump, a Horrible Heffalump!” — Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh
5. “It’s a little Anxious,” he said to himself, “to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water.” — Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh
6. “Try,” said Piglet suddenly. “We’ll wait here for you.” — Piglet, The House at Pooh Corner
7. “It won’t break,” whispered Pooh comfortingly, “because you’re a Small Animal, and I’ll stand underneath, and if you save us all, it will be a Very Grand Thing to talk about afterwards.” — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
8. He squeezed and he squoze, and then with one last sqooze he was out. — A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
9. It’s dangerous but I can do it all right. — Piglet, The House at Pooh Corner
10. “Courage!” he said. “There’s always hope.” — A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
11. Did Piglet tremble? Did he blinch? No, No, he struggled inch by inch. — A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
12. “You only blinched inside,” said Pooh, “and that’s the bravest way for a Very Small Animal not to blinch that there is.” — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
13. Piglet sighed with happiness, and began to think about himself. He was brave. — A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

Eeyore’s Gloom: Winnie the Pooh Quotes

1. “Good morning, Pooh Bear,” said Eeyore gloomily. “If it is a good morning,” he said. “Which I doubt,” said he. — Eeyore, Winnie-the-Pooh
2. We can’t all, and some of us don’t. — Eeyore, Winnie-the-Pooh
3. This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it. — Eeyore, Winnie-the-Pooh
4. 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. — Eeyore, Winnie-the-Pooh
5. “It’s snowing still,” said Eeyore gloomily. — Eeyore, The House at Pooh Corner
6. After all, we can’t all have houses. — Eeyore, The House at Pooh Corner
7. “Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays,” said Eeyore gloomily. — Eeyore, The House at Pooh Corner
8. “The really exciting part,” said Eeyore in his most melancholy voice, “is that when I left it this morning it was there, and when I came back it wasn’t.” — Eeyore, The House at Pooh Corner
9. They haven’t got Brains, any of them, only grey fluff that’s blown into their heads by mistake, and they don’t Think. — Eeyore, The House at Pooh Corner
10. Bouncy or coffy, it’s all the same at the bottom of the river. — Eeyore, The House at Pooh Corner
11. I just floated to the surface, and said to myself, “It’s wet.” — Eeyore, The House at Pooh Corner
12. Mind you don’t get blown away, little Piglet. You’d be missed. — Eeyore, The House at Pooh Corner

Tigger’s Bounce: Winnie the Pooh Quotes

1. Tiggers don’t like haycorns. — Tigger, The House at Pooh Corner
2. “Thistles,” said Tigger, “is what Tiggers like best.” — Tigger, The House at Pooh Corner
3. “So that’s what Tiggers like!” — Tigger, The House at Pooh Corner
4. “Yes,” said Tigger, “they’re very good flyers, Tiggers are. Stornry good flyers.” — Tigger, The House at Pooh Corner
5. “Of course they can. Tiggers can do everything.” — Tigger, The House at Pooh Corner
6. “Climbing trees is what they do best,” said Tigger. “Much better than Poohs.” — Tigger, The House at Pooh Corner
7. “It’s a funny thing about Tiggers,” whispered Tigger to Roo, “how Tiggers never get lost.” — Tigger, The House at Pooh Corner
8. “I’ve been finding things in the Forest,” said Tigger importantly. “I’ve found a pooh and a piglet and an eeyore, but I can’t find any breakfast.” — Tigger, The House at Pooh Corner
9. “I didn’t bounce, I coughed,” said Tigger crossly. — Tigger, The House at Pooh Corner
10. “Tiggers can’t climb downwards, because their tails get in the way, only upwards.” — Roo, The House at Pooh Corner
11. “Tiggers never go on being Sad,” explained Rabbit. “They get over it with Astonishing Rapidity.” — Rabbit, The House at Pooh Corner
12. “He just is bouncy,” said Piglet, “and he can’t help it.” — Piglet, The House at Pooh Corner
13. “I was BOUNCED,” said Eeyore. — Eeyore, The House at Pooh Corner
14. “That’s what I call bouncing,” said Eeyore. “Taking people by surprise.” — Eeyore, The House at Pooh Corner

Short Winnie the Pooh Quotes

1. Think, think, think. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
2. Oh, bother. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
3. “This is Serious,” said Pooh. “I must have an Escape.” — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
4. “We might go in your umbrella,” said Pooh. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
5. “Now then, Pooh, time for a little something.” — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
6. “Pathetic,” he said. “That’s what it is. Pathetic.” — Eeyore, Winnie-the-Pooh
7. “Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens.” — Rabbit, Winnie-the-Pooh
8. “Supposing it didn’t,” said Pooh after careful thought. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
9. “I don’t see much sense in that,” said Rabbit. — Rabbit, The House at Pooh Corner
10. What I like doing best is Nothing. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
11. “What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
12. “A week!” said Pooh gloomily. “What about meals?” — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
13. “Dear, dear,” said Pooh, “I’m sorry about that.” — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
14. “Aha!” said Pooh. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
15. “Have I?” said Pooh, not feeling quite sure. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner

Famous Winnie the Pooh Verses

1. How sweet to be a Cloud
   Floating in the Blue!
   Every little cloud
   Always sings aloud.
   “How sweet to be a Cloud
   Floating in the Blue!”
   It makes him very proud
   To be a little cloud. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
2. Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,
   A fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly.
   Ask me a riddle and I reply:
   Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
3. Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,
   A fish can’t whistle and neither can I.
   Ask me a riddle and I reply:
   Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
4. The more it snows
   (Tiddely pom),
   The more it goes
   (Tiddely pom),
   The more it goes
   (Tiddely pom)
   On snowing.
   And nobody knows
   (Tiddely pom),
   How cold my toes
   (Tiddely pom),
   How cold my toes
   (Tiddely pom)
   Are growing. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
5. What shall we do about poor little Tigger?
   If he never eats nothing he’ll never get bigger.
   He doesn’t like honey and haycorns and thistles
   Because of the taste and because of the bristles.
   And all the good things which an animal likes
   Have the wrong sort of swallow or too many spikes. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
6. But whatever his weight in pounds, shillings, and ounces,
   He always seems bigger because of his bounces. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
7. They all went off to discover the Pole,
   Owl and Piglet and Rabbit and all;
   It’s a Thing you Discover, as I’ve been tole
   By Owl and Piglet and Rabbit and all.
   Eeyore, Christopher Robin and Pooh
   And Rabbit’s relations all went too—
   And where the Pole was none of them knew….
   Sing Hey! for Owl and Rabbit and all! — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
8. Oh, I like his way of talking,
   Yes, I do.
   It’s the nicest way of talking
   Just for two.
   And a Help-yourself with Rabbit
   Though it may become a habit,
   Is a pleasant sort of habit
   For a Pooh. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
9. I could spend a happy morning
   Seeing Piglet.
   And I couldn’t spend a happy morning
   Not seeing Piglet.
   And it doesn’t seem to matter
   If I don’t see Owl and Eeyore
   (or any of the others),
   And I’m not going to see Owl or Eeyore
   (or any of the others)
   Or Christopher Robin. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
10. This warm and sunny Spot
    Belongs to Pooh.
    And here he wonders what
    He’s going to do.
    Oh, bother, I forgot–
    It’s Piglet’s too. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
11. He’s taken my medicine, he’s taken my medicine, he’s taken my medicine! — Roo, The House at Pooh Corner
12. We’ve finished our HOUSE!
    Tiddely pom!
    It’s a beautiful HOUSE….
    Tiddely pom….
    I wish it were MINE….
    Tiddely pom…. — Winnie the Pooh and Piglet, The House at Pooh Corner
13. Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,
    Why does a chicken, I don’t know why.
    Ask me a riddle and I reply:
    Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
14. Tra-la-la, tra-la-la,
    Tra-la-la, tra-la-la,
    Rum-tum-tiddle-um-tum.
    Tiddle-iddle, tiddle-iddle,
    Tiddle-iddle, tiddle-iddle,
    Rum-tum-tum-tiddle-um. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie the Pooh Quotes on Thinking

1. “I have been Foolish and Deluded,” said he, “and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.” — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
2. Pooh began to feel a little more comfortable, because 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. — A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
3. 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. — A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
4. The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought, “Why?” and sometimes he thought, “Wherefore?” and sometimes he thought, “Inasmuch as which?”—and sometimes he didn’t quite know what he was thinking about. — A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
5. Owl hasn’t exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. — Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh
6. Because my spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
7. He doesn’t use long, difficult words, like Owl. He uses short, easy words, like “What about lunch?” and “Help yourself, Pooh.” — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
8. “I listened, but I had a small piece of fluff in my ear. Could you say it again, please, Rabbit?” — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
9. “N-no,” said Pooh carelessly. “Just resting and thinking and humming to myself.” — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
10. “I did know once, only I’ve sort of forgotten,” said Christopher Robin. — Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh
11. It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
12. “There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said ‘Nobody.'” — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
13. “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.” — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
14. “If I walked away from this Pit, and then walked back to it, of course I should find it.” — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
15. “Do you see, Pooh? Do you see, Piglet? Brains first and then Hard Work. Look at it! That’s the way to build a house,” said Eeyore proudly. — Eeyore, The House at Pooh Corner

Winnie the Pooh Quotes on Adventure

1. “Pooh,” said Christopher Robin solemnly, “the Expedition is over. You have found the North Pole!” “Oh!” said Pooh. — Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh
2. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing. — A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
3. I’m not going to do Nothing any more. — Christopher Robin, The House at Pooh Corner
4. “Lucky we know the Forest so well, or we might get lost,” said Rabbit half an hour later, and he gave the careless laugh which you give when you know the Forest so well that you can’t get lost. — Rabbit, The House at Pooh Corner
5. 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, Winnie-the-Pooh
6. One day when Pooh Bear had nothing else to do, he thought he would do something, so he went round to Piglet’s house to see what Piglet was doing. — A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
7. “Christopher Robin, you must shoot the balloon with your gun. Have you got your gun?” — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
8. “That’s what Jagulars always do,” said Pooh, much interested. “They call ‘Help! Help!’ and then when you look up, they drop on you.” — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
9. “Without Pooh,” said Rabbit solemnly as he sharpened his pencil, “the adventure would be impossible.” — Rabbit, Winnie-the-Pooh
10. 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. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
11. And I shall go on humming. That will Unsettle him. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
12. “Hunting,” said Pooh. “Hunting what?” “Tracking something,” said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
13. “Aha!” said Pooh. “If I know anything about anything, that hole means Rabbit,” he said, “and Rabbit means Company,” he said, “and Company means Food and Listening-to-Me-Humming and such like. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
14. When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is not to let the bees know you’re coming. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
15. “Hallo, Rabbit, isn’t that you?” — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie the Pooh Quotes on Home

1. The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn’t there. — A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
2. “Nearly eleven o’clock,” said Pooh happily. “You’re just in time for a little smackerel of something.” — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
3. “He’d come and live with me,” said Pooh, “wouldn’t you, Piglet?” — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
4. “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?” — Rabbit, The House at Pooh Corner
5. I wish Pooh were here. It’s so much more friendly with two. — Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh
6. Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude. — A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
7. “Hallo, Eeyore.” “Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays,” said Eeyore gloomily. — Eeyore, The House at Pooh Corner
8. “Will there be those little cake things with pink sugar icing?” — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
9. “Everybody is really,” said Pooh. “That’s what I think,” said Pooh. “But I don’t suppose I’m right,” he said. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
10. So what I’ve been thinking is: Let’s build him a house. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
11. Owl and Kanga and Rabbit have houses, and even Rabbit’s friends and relations have houses or somethings, but poor Eeyore has nothing. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
12. “We build it here,” said Pooh, “just by this wood, out of the wind, because this is where I thought of it. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
13. And we will call this Pooh Corner. And we will build an Eeyore House with sticks at Pooh Corner for Eeyore. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
14. “Inside as well as outside,” said Pooh proudly. — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
15. “It’s a remarkable thing,” he said. “It is my house, and I built it where I said I did, so the wind must have blown it here. — Eeyore, The House at Pooh Corner
16. “What I think,” said Pooh, “is I think we’ll go to Pooh Corner and see Eeyore, because perhaps his house has been blown down, and perhaps he’d like us to build it again.” — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner

Forever Young: Winnie the Pooh Quotes

1. “It all comes,” said Pooh crossly, “of not having front doors big enough.” — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
2. Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness? — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
3. “Well,” said Pooh, “if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will grow up into a beehive.” — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
4. “I didn’t mean to be underneath,” said Piglet sadly. “But I’m all right now, Pooh, and I am so glad it was you.” — Piglet, The House at Pooh Corner
5. “I just like to know,” said Pooh humbly. “So as I can say to myself: ‘I’ve got fourteen pots of honey left.’ Or fifteen, as the case may be. It’s sort of comforting.” — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
6. “Fourteen,” said Pooh. “Come in. Fourteen. Or was it fifteen? Bother. That’s muddled me.” — Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
7. “You didn’t exactly miss,” said Pooh, “but you missed the balloon.” — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
8. “But if you don’t,” said Pooh, “I shall have to let go, and that would spoil me.” — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
9. “So is a gorse-bush sometimes,” said Pooh. — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
10. “Tigger is all right really,” said Piglet lazily. — Piglet, The House at Pooh Corner
11. “Not very how,” he said. “I don’t seem to have felt at all how for a long time.” — Eeyore, Winnie-the-Pooh
12. but Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comforting to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two. — Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh
13. “Well, actually, of course, I’m saying ‘A Very Happy Birthday with love from Pooh.'” — Owl, Winnie-the-Pooh
14. “Dear, dear,” said Pooh, “I didn’t know it was as late as that.” — Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
15. “Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.” — Eeyore, Winnie-the-Pooh
16. “I don’t think so,” said Rabbit. “It isn’t meant to be.” — Rabbit, Winnie-the-Pooh

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Frequently Asked Questions

Who wrote Winnie the Pooh?

Winnie the Pooh was created by English author A.A. Milne. The first book, Winnie-the-Pooh, was published in 1926, followed by The House at Pooh Corner in 1928. The poems come from When We Were Very Young (1924) and Now We Are Six (1927).

What is the most famous Winnie the Pooh quote?

Beloved lines include Pooh’s “Think, think, think,” Eeyore’s gloomy observations, and Piglet’s small-but-brave wisdom — all gathered in this collection, verified word-for-word from Milne’s original books.

Are these Winnie the Pooh quotes real?

Yes — every quote in this collection was verified verbatim against the original texts of A.A. Milne’s books, with the speaking character and book title shown for each. Popular misattributed lines were excluded.

What can I use Winnie the Pooh quotes for?

These gentle quotes are perfect for greeting cards, children’s rooms, Instagram captions, wedding speeches, and any moment that needs warmth and simple wisdom.

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