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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. MILNE
Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE
I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him w...
A. A. MILNE
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A. A. MILNE
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong place...
A. A. MILNE
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
A. A. MILNE
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. MILNE
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for hims...
A. A. MILNE
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer t...
A. A. MILNE
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A. A. MILNE
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do...
A. A. MILNE
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
A. A. MILNE
The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contem...
A. A. BLASOV
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems...
A A MILNE
Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when th...
A. A. MILNE
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A. A. MILNE
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. MILNE
Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.
A. A. MILNE
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bi...
A. A. MILNE
Silence is a text easy to misread.
A. A. ATTANASIO
Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is ...
A. A. MILNE
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
A. A. MILNE
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
A. A. MILNE
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you see...
A. A. MILNE
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is onl...
A. A. MILNE
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A. A. MILNE
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to...
A. A. MILNE
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing ...
A. A. MILNE
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy...
A. A. MILNE
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - ...
A. A. MILNE
A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to ...
A. A. MILNE
Oh, help!” said Pooh. “I’d better go back.”
“Oh, bother!” said Pooh. “I shall hav...
MILNE, A. A.
How would it be,” said Pooh slowly, “if, as soon as we’re out of sight of this Pit, we try to ...
MILNE, A. A.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
A. A. MILNE
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. MILNE
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. MILNE
For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fift...
A. A. MILNE
"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. A. MILNE
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. MILNE
I have decided to catch a Heffalump.
A. A. MILNE
He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be foun...
A. A. HODGE
The wind was against them now, and Piglet's ears streamed behind him like banners as he fought his w...
MILNE, A. A.
The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name and they say golf is a quiet game
A. A. MILNE
An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play, it is always possible to get w...
A. A. MILNE
"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE
I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In.
A. A. HODGE
How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE
You must never go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me.
A. A. HODGE