"One can't complain. I have my friends.
Someone spoke to me only yesterday."

"I don't hold with all the washing," grumbled Eeyore.
"This modern Behind-the-ears nonsense."

from "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A. A. Milne

"When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself
before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there."

from "Eeyore's gloomy Little Instruction Book" by A. A. Milne

"Sitting on thistles doesn't do them any Good.
Take all the Life out of them."

from "Eeyore's gloomy Little Instruction Book" by A. A. Milne

"After all, what are birthdays?
Here today and gone tomorrow."

from "The House at Pooh Corner" by A. A. Milne

"Ha-ha," said Eeyore bitterly. "Merriment and what-not.
Don't apologize. It's just what would happen."

"No Give and Take. No Exchange of Thought. It gets you nowhere,
particularly if the other person's tail is only just in sight
for the second half of the conversation."

from "The House at Pooh Corner" by A. A. Milne

"If you ask me, when a house looks like that, it's time to find another one."
"That's a very good idea Eeyore," said Christopher Robin.
"It may take a day or two but I'll find a new one."

from "The Blustery Day" by A. A. Milne

"Clever!" said Eeyore scornfully, putting a foot heavily on his three sticks.
"Education!" said Eeyore bitterly, jumping on his six sticks.
"What is Learning?" asked Eeyore as he kicked his twelve sticks in the air.
"A thing Rabbit knows! Ha!"

The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest,
his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things.
Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought,
"Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes
he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.

from "The Pooh Book of Quotations" by A. A. Milne

"Why, what's the matter?"
"Nothing Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't.
That's all there is to it"
"Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose.
"Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush."
"Oh!" said Pooh. He thought for a long time, and then asked,
"What mulberry bush is that?"
"Bon-hommy," went on Eeyore gloomily.
"French word for meaning bonhommy," he explained.
"I'm not complaining, but There It Is."

from "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A. A. Milne