Pooh Bear or Faux Fur? A Quiz

[steepholm]

The following quotations are all taken from a site devoted to inspirational Winnie-the-Pooh quotations, where they are all attributed to A. A. Milne. Most, of course, are entirely spurious, but there are three* genuine quotations hidden in with the rest. Which three?

Piglet: “How do you spell ‘love’?”
Pooh: “You don’t spell it... you feel it.”

“Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.”

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

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

“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.”

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
‘Pooh!’ he whispered.
‘Yes, Piglet?’
‘Nothing,’ said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. ‘I just wanted to be sure of you.’

“I wonder what Piglet is doing,” thought Pooh. “I wish I were there to be doing it, too.”

“‘We’ll be Friends Forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet.
‘Even longer,’ Pooh answered.”

“‘I don’t feel very much like Pooh today,’ said Pooh.
‘There, there,’ said Piglet. ‘I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.'”

“You’re braver than you believe and stronger and smarter than you think.”

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”

“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”

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

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

“Think it over, think it under.”

“I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”

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

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

Bonus question: of the spurious quotations, which were the most and the least Milne-esque?

* Just possibly more than three, but I could only find three in the Pooh books.

Comments

[steepholm]

Ah, several of the ones on the site were distortions of real quotations, and I tried to cut those out as confusing the issue, but it seems I missed that one. What's the real quotation?

[ethelmay]

From The House at Pooh Corner: “By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.”

[steepholm]

That makes sense. It's the ponderous "Rivers know this" that seems most un-Poohlike. He might as well have said, "Consider ye the rivers of the field..."

[ethelmay]

Rivers know this: Jane Eyre not love him. Rivers go India. Die honorably. Tarzan has spoken.