From Mountainside Crafts, you can buy your favorite Pooh misquote as a wooden mounted rubber stamp. Here's one normally attributed to Eeyore, but when you're misquoting stuff why even bother getting that right: "Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them - Pooh". (Buy now for only 25.86 Polish Zloty!) This is frequently cited as a Milne quotation, which is incorrect as it doesn't feature in any of Milne books. It's not from any of the Disney movies either. It's possible (although I have yet to confirm this) that this quote pops up in "Eeyore's Gloomy Little Instruction Book", which was not in fact written by Milne but rather by Joan Powers, which, as discussed previously, does not make it a Milne or Pooh quote in my humble opinion.
Probably the actual origin of this quote, or at least the inspiration for it, is a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919), who (it should be noted) died long before the first Pooh book was published. In her poem 'The Weed', published in "Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels" (1911; London: Gay & Hancock), she wrote: "A weed is but an unloved flower!".
Interestingly, however, even the Texas Education Agency thinks this is a quote from Milne, including it as the subject of a essay question in the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exam for English Writing, raising questions about whether people at the Texas Education Agency quote Milne without reading any. Naughty.
Probably the actual origin of this quote, or at least the inspiration for it, is a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919), who (it should be noted) died long before the first Pooh book was published. In her poem 'The Weed', published in "Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels" (1911; London: Gay & Hancock), she wrote: "A weed is but an unloved flower!".
Interestingly, however, even the Texas Education Agency thinks this is a quote from Milne, including it as the subject of a essay question in the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exam for English Writing, raising questions about whether people at the Texas Education Agency quote Milne without reading any. Naughty.