A.A. Milne

Quotes

• “She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in ...”
• “Hallo, Pooh,” said Rabbit.“Hallo, Rabbit,” said Pooh dreamily.“Did you make that song up?”“Well, I sort of made it up,” ...”
• “How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively.'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being...”
• “How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively.'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being...”
• “Wherever I am, there's always Pooh,There's always Pooh and Me.Whatever I do, he wants to do,"Where are you going today?"...”
• “Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully."Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever.""And he has Brain.""Yes," said Piglet, "R...”
• “DaffodowndillyShe wore her yellow sun-bonnet, She wore her greenest gown;She turned to the south wind And curtsied up an...”
• “The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief—call it what you will—than any book ever writt...”
• “The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is t...”
• “Owl," said Rabbit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Fo...”
• “Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what h...”
• “You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everythin...”
• “It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily."So it is.""And freezing.""Is it?""Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brig...”
• “Winnie the Pooh finds comfort in counting his pots of honey, and Rabbit finds comfort in knowing where his relations are...”
• “If you were a bird, and lived on high,You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by,You'd say to the wind when it took yo...”
• “If you were a cloud, and sailed up there,You'd sail on the water as blue as air.And you'd see me here in the fields and ...”
• “On Wednesday, when the sky is blue,and I have nothing else to do,I sometimes wonder if it's true That who is what and wh...”
• “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered."Yes, Piglet?""Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I j...”
• “[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious busines...”
• “I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh."There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you d...”
• “King John was not a good man,He had his little ways.And sometimes no one spoke to him,For days and days and days.”
• “- What day is it?- It's today, - squeaked Piglet.- My favorite day, - said Pooh. ("Winnie-the Pooh", A.A. Milne)”
• “Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
• “She turned to the sunlight    And shook her yellow head,And whispered to her neighbor:    "Winter is dead.”
• “We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.Even longer,' Pooh answered.” Winnie-the-Pooh”
• “Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.”
• “What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
• “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.”
• “What day is it,?” asked Pooh. “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.“My favorite day,” said Pooh.”
• “Whatever his weight in pounds and ounces, he always seems bigger because of his bounces.”
• “I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.”
• “One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries”
• “Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.”
• “How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet"You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh”
• “He said it twice because he had never said it before, and it sounded funny.”
• “Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.”
• “What day is it?"It's today," squeaked Piglet.My favorite day," said Pooh.”
• “The things that make me different are the things that make me ME. -Piglet”
• “What day is it?” It’s today, squeaked Piglet. My favorite day, said Pooh.”
• “Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”
• “James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.”
• “How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
• “The things that make me different are the things that make me.”
• “It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.”
• “She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.”
• “Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits...”
• “Eighteen pockets in one suit? I haven't the time.”
• “Get out of my chair, dillhole!”
• “Tut, Tut, looks like rain”