“Ha-ha”, said Eeyore bitterly. “Merriment and what-not. Don’t apologize. It’s just what would happen.”
A.A. Milne
- Author
- A. A. Milne
- Year
- 1926
- Genre
- children's fiction
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A. A. Milne wrote the Pooh books for his son Christopher Robin, borrowing the names of the boy's actual stuffed animals; the bear himself was named after a Canadian black bear at London Zoo called Winnie. The gentle aphorisms quoted from the Hundred Acre Wood are a curious case: many of the most-shared 'Pooh quotes' online were never written by Milne at all, but coined for Disney adaptations or invented outright for greetings cards. The 1926 originals entered the US public domain in 2022.
Promise me, Pooh, that you won't forget me ever, because if I thought you would, I wouldn't leave.
A.A. Milne
The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn’t there.
A.A. Milne
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. Lets go together’ says pooh, says he, ‘Lets go together’ says Pooh.
A.A. Milne
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
Winnie the Pooh
It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
Piglet
"Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you."
Piglet
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.
Winnie the Pooh
We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it.
Eeyore
It's snowing still. And freezing. However, we haven't had an earthquake lately.
Eeyore
The only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey. And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.
Winnie the Pooh
When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is not to let the bees know you're coming.
Winnie the Pooh
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
Eeyore
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.
The House at Pooh Corner (1928), ch. 10