"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."

"When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is not to let the bees know you're coming."

"Nobody can be un-cheered with a balloon."

Pooh was saying to himself, "If only I could think of something!" For he felt very sure that a Very Clever Brain could catch a Heffalump if only he knew the right way to go about it."

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

"It's so much more friendly with two."

Pooh said, "Let's go and see Kanga and Roo and Tigger," and Piglet said, "Y-yes. L-let's" -- because he was still a little anxious about Tigger, who was a Very Bouncy Animal, with a way of saying How-do-you-do, which always left your ears full of sand

"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."

"Piglet," said Rabbit, taking a pencil, and licking the end of it, "you haven't any pluck."

....."Excuse me a moment, but there's something climbing up your table," and with one loud Worraworraworraworraworra he jumped at the end of the tablecloth, pulled it to the ground, wrapped himself up in it three times, rolled to the other end of the room, and, after a terrible struggle, got his head into the daylight again, and said cheerfully: "Have I won?"
"That's my tablecloth," said Pooh, as he began to unwind Tigger.
"I wondered what it was," said Tigger.
"It goes on the table and you put things on it."
"Then why did it try to bite me when I wasn't looking?"
"I don't think it did," said Pooh.
"It tried," said Tigger, "but I was too quick for it."

"One can't complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday."

"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."

"I'm not asking anybody," said Eeyore. "I'm just telling everybody. We can look for the North Pole, or we can play 'Here we go gathering Nuts and May' with the end part of an ant's nest. It's all the same to me."

.....But Kanga and Christopher Robin were all standing around Roo, watching him have his Extract of Malt. And Roo was saying, "Must I ," and Kanga was saying "Now Roo dear, you remember what you promised."
"What is it?" wispered Tigger to Piglet.
"His Strengthening Medicine," said Piglet. "He hates it."
So Tigger came closer, and he leant over the back of Roo's chair, and suddenly he put out his toung and took one large golollop, and , with a sdden jump of surprise, Kanga said, "Oh!" and then clutched at the spoon again just as it was disappearing, and pulled it safely back out of Tigger's mouth. But the Extract of Malt had gone.
"Tigger dear! said Kanga.
"He's taken my medicine, he's taken my medicine he's taken my medicine!" sang Roo Happily, thinking it was a tremendous joke...

"Owl, you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest-and when I say thinking I mean thinking-you and I must do it."