It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.

I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name

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.

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.

So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was in the open again ... and then his ears ... and then his front paws ... and then his shoulders ... and then-'Oh, help!' said Pooh, 'I'd better go back,' 'Oh bother!' said Pooh, 'I shall have to go on.' 'I can't do either!' said Pooh, 'Oh help and bother!

A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.