ThursdayOct 15, 2026
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like 'What about lunch?'
'How long does getting thin take?' Pooh asked anxiously.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and 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.
Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way ... if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it!
If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it..
Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.
Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
Eeyore, the old grey donkey, stood by the side of the stream and looked at himself in the water. 'Pathetic,' he said. 'That's what it is. Pathetic.'
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
What I say is, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
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.
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
'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.
When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
It's so much more friendly with two.
There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldnt because of the state he was in.
It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
Brains first and then Hard Work.
Bores can be divided into two classes: those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.
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.
Come, come, come. Without a monster or two its not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
Isn't it funny How a bear likes honey? Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! I wonder why he does?
And nobody knows (Tiddely pom), How cold my toes (Tiddely pom), How cold my toes (Tiddely pom), Are growing.
Time for a little something.
I do like a little bit of butter to my bread!
They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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