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Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two. -- A.a. Milne
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them. -- A.a. Milne
When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out. -- A.a. Milne
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. -- A.a. Milne
Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day. -- A.a. Milne
I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten. -- A.a. Milne
I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody. -- A.a. Milne
I have been Foolish and Deluded," said he, "and I am a Bear of No Brain at All." "You're the Best Bear in All the World," said Christopher Robin soothingly. "Am I?" said Pooh hopefully. And then he brightened up suddenly. "Anyhow," he said, "it is nearly Luncheon Time." So he went home for it. -- A.a. Milne
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.a. Milne
How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. -- A.a. Milne
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. -- A.a. Milne
NOTPOHL
Endtegt vohn
PU
PU had in
gefuhnden -- A.a. Milne
He said it twice because he had never said it before, and it sounded funny. -- A.a. Milne
You mean Piglet. The little fellow with the excited ears. That's Piglet. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer. -- A.a. Milne
I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
I say," began Piglet, "don't you think goodreads could do something about quote verification, what with that Kindle plugin and all? Most of these quotes are balderdash, and they're being repeated everywhere. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like What about lunch? -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think. -- A.a. Milne
Forever isn't long at all, Christopher, as long as I'm with you. -- A.a. Milne
Thank you, Christopher Robin. You're the only one who seems to understand about tails. They don't think - that's what's the matter with some of these others. They've no imagination. A tail isn't a tail to them, it's just a Little Bit Extra at the back. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords. -- A.a. Milne
Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in our hearts. -- A.a. Milne
Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. -- A.a. Milne
Honey or condensed milk with your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, "but don't bother about the bread, please. -- A.a. Milne
How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue! It makes him very proud To be a little cloud. -- A.a. Milne
When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there. -- A.a. Milne
Piglet thought that they ought to have a Reason for going to see everybody, like Looking for Small or Organizing an Expotition, if Pooh could think of something.
Pooh could.
"We'll go because it's Thursday," he said, "and we'll go to wish everybody a Very Happy Thursday. Come on, Piglet. -- A.a. Milne
Oh, Bear!" said Christopher Robin. "How I do love you!" "So do I," said Pooh. -- A.a. Milne
A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion. -- A.a. Milne
Walking with her man, Lost in a dream -- A.a. Milne
I suppose that by this time they had finished their dressing. Roger Scurvilegs tells us nothing on such important matters; no doubt from modesty. "Next morning they rose," he says, and disappoints us of a picture of Udo brushing his hair. -- A.a. Milne
I wasn't afraid," said Pooh, said he, "I'm never afraid with you. -- A.a. Milne
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries. -- A.a. Milne
What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it. -- A.a. Milne
A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. -- A.a. Milne
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see -- A.a. Milne
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. -- A.a. Milne
Sing Ho for the Life of a Bear -- A.a. Milne
Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love. -- A.a. Milne
How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively.
'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar,' Piglet replied.
'You mean to die?' asked Pooh.
'Yes and no,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on. -- A.a. Milne
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? -- A.a. Milne
Let's look for dragons, I said to Pooh.
Yes, let's, said Pooh to Me.
We crossed the river and found a few
Yes, those are dragons all right, said Pooh.
As soon as I saw their beaks I knew.
That's what they are, said Pooh, said he.
That's what they are, said Pooh. -- A.a. Milne
And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it. -- A.a. Milne
Non apibus dubitandem est.
(You never can tell with bees.)
~ Winnie ille Pu -- A.a. Milne
How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet
"You don't spell it ... you feel it." - Pooh -- A.a. Milne
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. -- A.a. Milne
You never can tell with bees. -- A.a. Milne
If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together there is something you must always remember ... -- A.a. Milne
It's your fault, Eeyore. You've never been to see any of us. You just stay here in this one corner of the Forest waiting for the others to come to you. Why don't you go to THEM sometimes? -- A.a. Milne
To the uneducated an A is just three sticks. -- A.a. Milne
I wish I'd been alive when the internet was invented. I'd have sold so many more books ... -- A.a. Milne
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen. -- A.a. Milne
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it. -- A.a. Milne
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.a. Milne
I have a house where I go,
When there's too many people,
I have a house where I go
Where no one can be;
I have a house where I go,
Where nobody ever says "no"
Where no one says anything - so
There is no one but me. -- A.a. Milne
There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said Nobody. -- A.a. Milne
So wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
"What would I do?" I said to Pooh,
"If it wasn't for you," and Pooh said to me: "True,
It isn't much fun for One, but Two
Can stick together," says Pooh, says he.
"That's how it is," says Pooh. -- A.a. Milne
It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
What do you say, Pooh?"
Pooh opened his eyes with a jerk and said, "Extremely."
"Extremely what?" asked Rabbit.
"What you were saying," said Pooh. "Undoubtably. -- 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
That's what Jagulars always do," said Pooh, much interested. "They call 'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they drop on you."
"I'm looking down," cried Piglet loudly, so as the Jagular shouldn't do the wrong thing by accident. -- A.a. Milne
Well, if you listen, Piglet, you'll hear it."
"How do you know I'm not listening?" Pooh couldn't answer that one, so he began to sing. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come. -Winnie-the-Pooh -- A.a. Milne
Some poeople care too much....I think its called Loved -- A.a. Milne
Eighteen pockets in one suit? I haven't the time. -- A.a. Milne
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?" says Pooh: "Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too. Let's go together," says Pooh, says he. "Let's go together," says Pooh. -- 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 them sometimes. -- A.a. Milne
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude. -- A.a. Milne
When I was young, we always had mornings like this. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
You are stronger than you seem,
Braver than you believe,
and smarter than you think you are. -- A.a. Milne
Don't blame me if it rains. -- A.a. Milne
HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY. Pooh -- A.a. Milne
Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then, having untied himself, he began to squeeze into the slit, through which in the old days when front doors were front doors, many an unexpected letter than WOL had written to himself, had come slipping. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
TO
MY COLLABORATOR
who buys the ink and paper
laughs
and, in fact, does all the really difficult
part of the business
this book is gratefully dedicated
in memory of a winter's morning
in Switzerland -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
To seem natural rather than to be natural. -- A.a. Milne
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.
Winnie-the-Pooh -- A.a. Milne
Of beer, an enthusiast has said that it could never be bad, but that some brands might be better than others. -- A.a. Milne
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. -- A.a. Milne
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you. -- A.a. Milne
Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; He thinks I'm another sort of funny thing, But he doesn't know I'm fishing - He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what I'm doing - Fishing. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh.
Eeyore shook his head from side to side.
"Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time."
"Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I'm sorry about that. Let's have a look at you. -- A.a. Milne
Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about. -- A.a. Milne
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.a. Milne
It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation. -- A.a. Milne
Hallo, Rabbit," he said, "is that you?"
"Let's pretend it isn't," said Rabbit, "and see what happens. -- A.a. Milne
In the drowsy heat of the summer afternoon the Red House was taking its siesta. There was a lazy murmur of bees in the flower-borders, a gentle cooing of pigeons in the tops of the elms. From -- A.a. Milne
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious. -- A.a. Milne
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
Well, you both went out with the blue balloon, and you took your gun with you, just in case, as you always did, -- A.a. Milne
You are braver than you believe,
Stronger than you seem,
And smarter than you think(: -- A.a. Milne
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering. -- A.a. Milne
Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up. -- A.a. Milne
Like all really nice people, you have a weakness for detective stories, and feel that there are not enough of them. So, after all that you have done for me, the least that I can do for you is to write you one. -- A.a. Milne
It isn't as easy as I thought. I suppose that's why Heffalumps hardly ever get caught. -- A.a. Milne
And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop. -- A.a. Milne
Hallo, Eeyore."
"Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily.
Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house. -- A.a. Milne
I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen. -- A.a. Milne
Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred. -- A.a. Milne
He could see the honey, he could smell the honey, but he couldn't quite reach the honey. -- A.a. Milne
Dig a little deeper. Think of something that we've never thought of before. -- A.a. Milne
Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,
A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
Ask me a riddle and I reply:
Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie. -- A.a. Milne
A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
I always did whatever I liked," she said, "but now I really can do it. -- A.a. Milne
We can't all and some of us don't. That's all there is to it. -- A.a. Milne
Did I miss?" you asked.
"You didn't exactly miss," said Pooh, "But you missed the balloon."
"I'm so sorry," you said, and you fired again, and this time you hit the balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground. -- A.a. Milne
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.a. Milne
The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually. -- A.a. Milne
Oh, Eeyore, you are wet! said Piglet, feeling him.
Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time. -- A.a. Milne
In a very little time they got to the corner of the field by the side of the pine wood where Eeyore's house wasn't any longer.
'There!' said Eeyore. 'Not a stick of it left! Of course, I've still got all this snow to do what I like with. One mustn't complain. -- A.a. Milne
That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself."
"I am," said Pooh. -- A.a. Milne
And then we'll go out, Piglet, and sing my song to Eeyore."
"Which song, Pooh?"
"The one we're going to sing to Eeyore," explained Pooh. -- A.a. Milne
Good morning, Eeyore," shouted Piglet. "Good morning, Little Piglet," said Eeyore. "If it is a good morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he. "Not that it matters," he -- A.a. Milne
I didn't bounce, I coughed," said Tigger crossly.
"Bouncy or coffy, it's all the same at the bottom of the river. -- A.a. Milne
We can't all, and some of us don't. -- A.a. Milne
Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by. -- A.a. Milne
Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. -- A.a. Milne
For some time now Pooh had been saying "Yes" and "No" in turn, with his eyes shut, to all that Owl was saying, and having said, "Yes, yes," last time, he said "No, not at all," now, without really knowing what Owl was talking about. -- A.a. Milne
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 what is who.
- Winnie-the-Pooh -- A.a. Milne
A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly. -- A.a. Milne
Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter. -- A.a. Milne
If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head. -- A.a. Milne
Do go and see, Owl. Because Pooh hasn't got very much brain, and he might do something silly, and I do love him so, Owl. Do you see, Owl? -- A.a. Milne
Would you mind coming with me, Piglet, in case they turn out to be Hostile Animals? -- A.a. Milne
Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it ... you feel it." -- A.a. Milne
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.a. Milne
What I like doing best is Nothing. -- A.a. Milne
To her-
Hand in hand we come
Christopher Robin and I
To lay this book in your lap.
Say you're surprised?
Say you like it?
Say it's just what you wanted?
Because it's yours-
because we love you. -- A.a. Milne
I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way. -- A.a. Milne
One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries -- A.a. Milne
Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
"I just like to know," said Pooh humbly. -- A.a. Milne
Oh Tigger, where are your manners?"
"I don't know, but I bet they're having more fun than I am. -- A.a. Milne
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go! -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. -- A.a. Milne
Are you prepared to have quite
obvious things explained to you, to ask futile questions, to give me
chances of scoring off you, to make brilliant discoveries of your own
two or three days after I have made them myself all that kind of thing? -- A.a. Milne
It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. Would you write 'A Happy Birthday' on it for me? -- A.a. Milne
But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two. -- A.a. Milne
The more - the merrier. -- A.a. Milne
I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All. -- A.a. Milne
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them. -- A.a. Milne
Whatever his weight in pounds and ounces, he always seems bigger because of his bounces. -- A.a. Milne
I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
Well, did Owl always have a letter-box in his ceiling?"
"Has he?"
"Yes, look."
"I can't," said Pooh. "I'm face downwards under something, and that, Piglet, is a very bad position for looking at ceilings."
"Well, he has, Pooh."
"Perhaps he's changed it," said Pooh. "Just for a change. -- A.a. Milne
You're braver than you believe and stronger and smarter than you think. -- A.a. Milne
You are braver then you believe, stronger then you seem, and smarter then you think. -- A.a. Milne
I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first. -- A.a. Milne
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there. -- A.a. Milne
I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn't anymore. -- A.a. Milne
It looks like a bothering sort of day. -- A.a. Milne
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain. -- A.a. Milne
I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost. -- A.a. Milne
He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron". -- A.a. Milne
You gave me Christopher Robin, and then
You breathed new life in Pooh.
Whatever of each has left my pen
Goes homing back to you.
My book is ready, and comes to greet
The mother it longs to see
It would be my present to you, my sweet,
If it weren't your gift to me. -- A.a. Milne
He respects owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right. -- A.a. Milne
Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts. -- A.a. Milne
Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about. -- A.a. Milne
When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way. -- A.a. Milne
If you stop painting policemen in order to paint windmills, criticism remains so overpoweringly policeman-conscious that even a windmill is seen as something with arms out, obviously directing the traffic. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
It's so much more friendly with two. -- A.a. Milne
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! -- A.a. Milne
From what I've read of detective stories, inspectors always do want to drag the pond first. -- A.a. Milne
When speaking to a Bear of Very Little Brain, remember that long words may bother him. -- 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
Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is. -- A.a. Milne
Christopher Robin ... just said it had an "x."' 'It isn't their necks I mind,' said Piglet earnestly. 'It's their teeth. -- A.a. Milne
Get out of my chair, dillhole! -- A.a. Milne
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true -- A.a. Milne
Tut-tut, it looks like rain. -- A.a. Milne
And that, said John, is that. -- A.a. Milne
James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all. -- A.a. Milne
[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
(The Record Lie) -- A.a. Milne
Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. -- A.a. Milne
Life is so much friendlier with two. -- A.a. Milne
Think, think, think. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
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. "Well," he said slowly. -- A.a. Milne
Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain."
"I know," said Pooh humbly. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
Time for a little something. -- A.a. Milne
Christopher Robin nodded. "Then there's only one thing to be done," he said. "We shall have to wait for you to get thin again." "How long does getting thin take?" asked Pooh anxiously. "About a week, I should think. -- 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 without you. -- A.a. Milne
Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness. -- A.a. Milne
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. -- A.a. Milne
Owl,' said Rabbit shortly, 'you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is easy thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
What day is it?', asked Winnie the Pooh.
'It's today,' squeaked Piglet.
'My favorite day,' said Pooh."
- The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh -- A.a. Milne
Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
I'm Short and fat and proud of that!! -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me. -- A.a. Milne
This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it. -- A.a. Milne
Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups? -- A.a. Milne
Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up. -- A.a. Milne
The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal. -- A.a. Milne
That's what Tiggers do best! -- A.a. Milne
And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself,
"it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "which it is," he added. "so there you are. -- A.a. Milne
But I can't stay here for a week!"
"You can stay here all right, silly old Bear. It's getting you out which is so difficult. -- A.a. Milne
You know, when once you've discovered a secret yourself, it always seems as if it must be so obvious to everybody else. -- A.a. Milne
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
Tiggers don't like honey. -- A.a. Milne
The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh:
I suppose all these people know better than I.
It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view
Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue). -- A.a. Milne
So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book. -- A.a. Milne
And Teddy worried lots about
The fact that he was rather stout.
He thought: If only I were thin!
But how does anyone begin? -- A.a. Milne
Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense. -- A.a. Milne
If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms. -- A.a. Milne
It all comes," said Pooh crossly, "of not having front doors big enough. -- A.a. Milne
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard. -- A.a. Milne
There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in. -- A.a. Milne
They always take longer than you think. -- A.a. Milne
Pooh felt that he ought to say something helpful about it, but didn't quite know what.
So he decided to do something helpful instead. -- A.a. Milne
Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one! -- 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 do like a little bit of butter to my bread. -- A.a. Milne
TTFN Ta Ta For Now! -- A.a. Milne
Tut, Tut, looks like rain -- A.a. Milne
I just wanted to be sure of you. -- A.a. Milne
He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
Pooh, how do you spell love?' 'You don't spell love Piglet, you feel it -- A.a. Milne
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. -- A.a. Milne
Brains first and then Hard Work. -- A.a. Milne
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject. -- A.a. Milne
It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it. -- A.a. Milne
it all comes of liking honey so much. -- A.a. Milne
If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin. -- A.a. Milne
She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it. -- A.a. Milne
She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: Winter is dead. -- A.a. Milne
They have no imagination. A tail is just a tail to them, just a little something extra in the back. -- A.a. Milne
Which makes it a bothering sort of day. -- A.a. Milne
The spring has sprung, the grass is rizz. I wonder where them birdies is? -- A.a. Milne
No sensible author wants anything but praise. -- A.a. Milne
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence. -- A.a. Milne
When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way. -- A.a. Milne
No one can tell me, Nobody knows, Where the wind comes from, Where the wind goes. -- A.a. Milne
His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know. -- A.a. Milne
And I know it seems easy," said Piglet to himself,"but it isn't every one who could do it. -- A.a. Milne
What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh. -- A.a. Milne
And really, it wasn't much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn't share them with somebody. -- A.a. Milne
It is hard to be brave,' said Piglet, sniffing slightly, 'when you're only a Very Small Animal. -- A.a. Milne
I do remember,' explained Christopher Robin, 'only Pooh doesn't very well, so that's why he likes having it told to him again. Because then it's a real story and not just a remembering. -- A.a. Milne
Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere. -- A.a. Milne
Owl looked at him, and wondered whether to push him off the tree; but, feeling that he could always do it afterwards, he tried once more to find out what they were talking about. -- A.a. Milne
It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all. -- A.a. Milne
For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds. -- A.a. Milne
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time. -- A.a. Milne
Oh, Kanga," said Pooh, after Rabbit had winked at him twice, "I don't know if you are interested in Poetry at all?" "Hardly at all," said Kanga. -- A.a. Milne
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. -- A.a. Milne
Think it over, think it under. -- A.a. Milne
But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever. -- A.a. Milne
The things that make me different are the things that make me. -- A.a. Milne
Gone out. Backson. Busy backson. -- A.a. Milne
The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there. -- A.a. Milne
But it's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't. -- A.a. Milne
As soon as I saw you I knew a grand adventure was about to happen. -- A.a. Milne
I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too. -- A.a. Milne
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. -- A.a. Milne
They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them. -- A.a. Milne
How long does getting thin take? -- A.a. Milne
