50 Best 'Winnie the Pooh' Quotes Guaranteed to Brighten Your Day

The beloved “silly old bear” Winnie the Pooh has delighted children for generations—but even adults can appreciate the best of his funny, witty and sometimes bittersweet quotes about life, love, friendship, growing up—and of course, honey.

Created by British author A.A. Milne in the 1920s, Winnie the Pooh (then spelled with hyphens, Winnie-the-Pooh) was an instant success. Milne based the characters on his son, Christopher Robin, his stuffed animals—Winnie the Pooh and friends Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo and Tigger—and their country home in England’s Ashdown Forest. Disney bought the rights to Winnie the Pooh in 1961, introducing even more children to the cheerful bear and his love of the simple joys of life. Here, warm your heart with some of the Hundred Acre Woods gang’s best quotes from the Winnie the Pooh books, movies and television shows.

Winnie the Pooh Quotes

1. “A hug is always the right size.”
—Winnie the Pooh

2. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends.”
—Eeyore

3. “The things that make me different are the things that make me, me.”
—Piglet

4. “You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.”
—Christopher Robin

5. “Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
—Winnie the Pooh

6. “If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so that I never have to live a day without you.”
—Winnie the Pooh

7. “A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.”
—Eeyore

8. “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
—Winnie the Pooh

9. “A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.”
—Winnie the Pooh

10. “It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like, ‘What about lunch?’”
—Winnie the Pooh

11. “If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”
—Winnie the Pooh

12. “The most wonderful thing about Tiggers is, I’m the only one.”
—Tigger

13. “Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.”
—Winnie the Pooh

14. “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.”
—Winnie the Pooh

15. “It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine.”
—Eeyore

16. “You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
—Winnie the Pooh

17. “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
—Winnie the Pooh

18. “Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
—Winnie the Pooh

19. “Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So, today is my new favorite day.”
—Winnie the Pooh

20. “When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
—Winnie the Pooh

21. “When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is to not let the bees know you’re coming.”
—Winnie the Pooh

22. “I’m so rumbly in my tumbly.”
—Winnie the Pooh

23. “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”
—Winnie the Pooh

24. “Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.”
—Winnie the Pooh

25. “I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?”
—Piglet

26. “Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.”
—Winnie the Pooh

27. “I’m not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
—Winnie the Pooh

28. “When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.”
—Winnie the Pooh

29. “Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.”
—Winnie the Pooh

30. “How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
—Winnie the Pooh

31. “They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.”
—Eeyore

32. “Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
—Winnie the Pooh

33. “Love is taking a few steps backward maybe even more to give way to the happiness of the person you love.”
—Winnie the Pooh

34. “If the string breaks, then we try another piece of string.”
—Owl

35. “It isn’t much good having anything exciting, if you can’t share it with somebody.”
—Winnie the Pooh

36. “Could be worse. Not sure how, but it could be.”
—Eeyore

37. “What’s wrong with knowing what you know now and not knowing what you don’t know until later?”
—Winnie the Pooh

38. “What could be more important than a little something to eat?”
—Winnie the Pooh

39. “Yesterday, when it was tomorrow, it was too exciting a day for me.”
—Winnie the Pooh

40. “Tiggers never go on being sad.”
—Rabbit

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41. “If people are upset because you’ve forgotten something, console them by letting them know you didn’t forget—you just weren’t remembering.”
—Winnie the Pooh

 42. “It’s so much more friendly with two.”
—Piglet 

43. “If it’s not Here, that means it’s out There.”
—Winnie the Pooh

 44. “What I like best is just doing nothing.”
—Christopher Robin

45. “If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn’t involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.”
—Winnie the Pooh

46. “I’m never afraid with you.”
—Winnie the Pooh

47. “Promise you won’t forget me ever?”
—Christopher Robin

48. “I always said Tiggers could climb trees. Not that it’s easy, mind you. Of course, there’s the coming-down too. Which will be difficult unless one fell, when it would be easy.”
—Tigger

49. “I always get to where I’m going by walking away from where I have been.”
—Winnie the Pooh

50. “Oh, bother.”
—Winnie the Pooh