“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ‘What about lunch?’”
“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.”
“It’s not much of a tail, but I’m sort of attached to it.”
“My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
“It is hard to be brave, when you’re only a Very Small Animal.”
“He could see the honey, he could smell the honey, but he couldn’t quite reach the honey.”
Owl was explaining that in a case of Sudden and Temporary Immersion the Important Thing was to keep the Head Above Water…”
“Eeyore nodded gloomily at him. “It will rain soon, you see if it doesn’t,” he said.”
AA Milne; Winnie the Pooh was published in 1926