Quotes from Alan Alexander Milne

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

Pooh felt that he ought to say something helpful about it, but didn't quite know what. So he decided to do something helpful instead.

Oh! Well, Many happy returns of the day, Eeyore." "And many happy returns to you, Pooh Bear." "But it isn't my birthday." "No, it's mine." "But you said 'Many happy returns'--" "Well, why not? You don't always want to be miserable on my birthday, do you?

I wish I could jump like that," he thought. "Some can and some can't. That's how it is.

Pooh went into a corner and tried saying 'Aha!' in that sort of voice. Sometimes it seemed to him that it did mean what Rabbit said, and sometimes it seemed to him that it didn't. "I suppose it's just practice," he thought. "I wonder if Kanga will have to practise too so as to understand it.

Well, if you listen, Piglet, you'll hear it." "How do you know I'm not listening?" Pooh couldn't answer that one, so he began to sing.

It isn't as easy as I thought. I suppose that's why Heffalumps hardly ever get caught.

Well, even if I'm in the moon, I needn't be face downwards all the time," so he got cautiously up and looked about him.

Owl was explaining that in a case of Sudden and Temporary Immersion the Important Thing was to keep the Head Above Water...

Qué afortunado soy de tener algo de lo que cuesta tanto despedirse», Winnie the Pooh

And I know it seems easy," said Piglet to himself,"but it isn't every one who could do it.

I haven't seen anybody to-day," said Pooh, "not so as to say 'Hallo, Small!' to. Did you want him for anything?" "I don't want him," said Rabbit. "But it's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.

Je?li do?yjesz stu lat, to ja chce ?y? sto lat minus jeden dzie?, ?ebym nigdy nie musia? ?y? bez ciebie.

Rabbit scratched his whiskers thoughtfully, and pointed out that, when once Pooh was pushed back, he was back, and of course nobody was more glad to see Pooh than he was, still there it was, some lived in trees and some lived underground, and-- "You mean I'd never get out?" said Pooh. "I mean," said Rabbit, "that having got so far, it seems a pity to waste it.