Top 237 Quotes & Sayings by A. A. Milne
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Tiggers don't like honey.
No sensible author wants anything but praise.
Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.
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.
In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.
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.
Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."
Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing
Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.
I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.
Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.
When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.
What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh.
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.
A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.
The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen
I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
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