A. A. Milne famous quotes

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

#Inspirational #Believe #Thinking

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

#Motivational #Gratitude #Heart

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.
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#Song #Morning #Doubt

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

#Love #Friendship #Positive

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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#Love #Inspirational #Friendship

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

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

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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#Life #Beauty #Beautiful

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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#Love #Missing You #Thinking Of You

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

Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?” "Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens.
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#Rabbits #Said

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

#Inspirational #Thinking #Grieving

I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
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#Travel #May #Lost

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

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.
-- A. A. Milne

#Book #Golf #Religion

How long does getting thin take?
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#Loss #Weight Loss #Long

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

Of beer, an enthusiast has said that it could never be bad, but that some brands might be better than others.
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#Beer #Might #Said

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.
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#Tree #Piglet #Said

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

#Success #Writing #Fame

But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer.
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#Sleep #Insomnia #Sheep

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

Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
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#Naps #Two

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

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.
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#Friendship #Relationship #Family

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

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.
-- A. A. Milne

#Friendship #Relationship #Confidence

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.
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#Earning #Quiet #Sometimes

What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh.
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#Live In The Moment #Piglet #Today

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.
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#Bye #Friendly #Forests

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.
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#Tuesday #Snow #Feelings

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

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

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.
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#Tails

When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.
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#Opposites #Long #Owl

Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.
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#Home #Owl #Tea

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.
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#Travel #Talking #People

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
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#Inspirational #Friendship #Relationship

Tut, Tut, looks like rain
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#Rain #Looks

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.
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#Friendship #Boys #Grieving

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.
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#Rivers #Long #Feelings

Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.
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#Islands #Ordinary #Robins

You never can tell with bees.
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#Bees #Night Time

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.
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#Book #Love You #Hands

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

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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#Graduation #Education #Memorable

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

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

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

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

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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#Adventure #Doors #Robins

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.
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#Morning #Food #Pigs

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

#Tuesday #Helping #Spelling

Think it over, think it under.
-- A. A. Milne

#Thinking

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

#Heart #Ideas #Mind

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

#Rabbits #Apple Pie #Way

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

#Writing #Play #History

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

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

#Life #Liars #Lying

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

#Fitness #Exercise #Trying

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
-- A. A. Milne

#Thinking #Bears #Robins

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

#Life #Cute #Science

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
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#Silly #Writing #Stuff

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

#Teacher #Sweet #Talking

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

#Relationship #Goodbye #Distance

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

#Weather #Numbers #Conversation

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Cute

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.
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#Winter #Ideas #Piglet

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

#Friendship #Honey #Pot

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.
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#Running #Rivers #Too Late

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

#Math #Two #Piglet

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

#Happiness #Happy #Thinking

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

#Writing #Letters #Spelling

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

#Attention #Might #Pay

I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
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#Relationship #Believe #Forever

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

#Inspirational #Friendship #Positive

The things that make me different are the things that make me.
-- A. A. Milne

#Inspirational #Life #Graduation

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

#Happiness #Integrity #Thinking

Brains first and then Hard Work.
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#Work #Hard Work #Brain

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

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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#Kindness #Mean #Animal

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
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#Children #Adventure #Mets

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

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

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

#Attitude #Earthquakes #Snow

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

#Time #Opportunity #Race

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

#Life #Meaningful #Native American