Pooh's Little Instruction Book

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

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

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.

When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and 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.

People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.

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.

If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.

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

Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.