A. A. Milne Quotes
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.
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'You only blinched inside,' said Pooh, 'and that's the bravest way for a Very Small Animal not to blinch that there is.'
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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.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
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I might have known,” said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said ‘Bother!’. The Social Round. Always something going on.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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It was just as if somebody inside him were saying, 'Now then, Pooh, time for a little something.'
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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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.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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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.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.
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'And he respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anyone who can spell Tuesday, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.'
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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'It is hard to be brave,' said Piglet, sniffing slightly, 'when you're only a Very Small Animal.'
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Tiggers don't like honey.
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Owl was telling Kanga an Interesting Anecdote full of long words like Encyclopædia and Rhododendron to which Kanga wasn't listening.
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They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - Christopher Robin went down with Alice.They've great big parties inside the grounds.'I wouldn't be king for a hundred pounds',Says Alice.