A. a. milne quotes

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there.

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.

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.

Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.

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.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

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.

A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.

Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.

I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn't anymore.

It's so much more friendly with two.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.

I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.

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?

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.

We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead.

I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

What ever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh.

It looks like a bothering sort of day.

When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.

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.

Think it over, think it under.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one!

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

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

A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

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.

Life is so much friendlier with two.

You never can tell with bees.

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.

Time for a little something.

On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.

Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.

Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.

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.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.

Some have brains, and some haven't, and there it is.

Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.

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.

Dig a little deeper. Think of something that we've never thought of before.

We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.

One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever, So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin.

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?

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

Eeyore, the old grey donkey, stood by the side of the stream and looked at himself in the water. "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."

A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.

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 counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Halfway down the stairs, is a stair, where I sit. There isn't any, other stair, quite like, it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top; So this is the stair, where, I always, stop. Halfway up the stairs, isn't up, and isn't down. It isn't in the nursery, it isn't in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts, run round my head: It isn't really anywhere! It's somewhere else instead!

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

How long does getting thin take?

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.

Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

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.

If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.

They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.

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.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.

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 you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!

Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he. "Why, what's the matter?" "Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.

Oh Tigger, where are your manners?" "I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!

You can't help respecting anybody 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.

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.

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.

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.

Forever isn't long at all, Christopher, as long as I'm with you.

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

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.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.

Christopher Robin ... just said it had an "x."' 'It isn't their necks I mind,' said Piglet earnestly. 'It's their teeth.

Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.

Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.

Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.