A. A. Milne Quotes
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'They wanted to come in after the pounds', explained Pooh, 'so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come'.
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So - here I am in the dark alone, There's nobody here to see; I think to myself, I play to myself, And nobody knows what I say to myself; Here I am in the dark alone, What is it going to be? I can think whatever I like to think, I can play whatever I like to play, I can laugh whatever I like to laugh, There's nobody here but me.
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Piglet took Pooh's arm, in case Pooh was frightened.
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'when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.'
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For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.
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WHERE did you say it was?' asked Pooh. Just here,' said Eeyore. Made of sticks?' Yes' Oh!' said Piglet. What?' said Eeyore. I just said "Oh!"' said Piglet nervously. And so as to seem quite at ease he hummed Tiddely-pom once or twice in a what-shall-we-do-now kind of way.
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No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.
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Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
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If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: 'Doesn't the sky look green today?
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If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee.
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
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When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.
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Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.
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And I’d say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: “There’s nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.
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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
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Isn't it funnyHow a bear likes honey?Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!I wonder why he does?
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It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
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It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the Forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying to Pooh, 'Don't listen to Rabbit, listen to me.' So he got in a comfortable position for not listening to Rabbit.
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Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look ready for Anything.
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'I'm not going to do just nothing anymore.''You mean never again?''Well, not so much. They don't let you.'
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On Monday, when the sun is hot, I wonder to myself a lot. Now is it true, or is it not, that what is which and which is what?
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'What?' said Piglet, with a jump. And then, to show that he hadn't been frightened, he jumped up and down once or twice more in an exercising sort of way.
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If I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will grow up into a beehive.
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...and then he and Roo pushed each other about in a friendly way, and Tigger accidentally knocked over one or two chairs by accident, and Roo accidentally knocked over one on purpose, and Kanga said, 'Now then, run along.'