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.

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.

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.

Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.

I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.

And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.