Popularly attributed to A. A. Milne and to Pooh, the quote featured on this Etsy greeting card ("People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day") dates back to well before even the first Pooh book (published 1926). The excellent website Quote Investigator (which, incidentally, make this website look niche, if not redundant) notes that this quote can be traced back to a book called “The Foolish Almanak For Anuthur Year”, published in 1906 by a possible pseudonymous Theodor Rosyfelt, in which it was written: "It is said that nothing is impossible; but there are lots of people doing nothing every day." The same quote has also apparently been misattributed to Alfred E. Neuman of Mad Magazine fame as well as having been adopted by various other people. All up, definitely not a Pooh quote.
When I first saw this Father's Day card, I was immediately suspicious of the quote. However, it turns out I was completely wrong. Shows what I know. Yes, this is a quote from Milne's "The House at Pooh Corner" (1928), albeit with some liberties taken. The full quote (from Chapter 6) being: "Christopher Robin came down from the Forest to the bridge, feeling all sunny and careless, and just as if twice nineteen didn't matter a bit, as it didn't on such a happy afternoon, and he thought that if he stood on the bottom rail of the bridge, and leant over, and watched the river slipping slowly away beneath him, then he would suddenly know everything that there was to be known, and he would be able to tell Pooh, who wasn't quite sure about some of it." Beautiful.
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