AA Milne Quotes

AA Milne Quotes About Adventure

1. “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. ” –  AA Milne
2. “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen. ” – AA Milne
3. “ 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. ” – AA Milne
4. “When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen. ” – AA Milne
5. “One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery. ” – AA Milne

 

AA Milne Inspirational Quotes

1. “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. ” – AA Milne
2. “ Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. ” – AA Milne
3. “The things that make me different are the things that make me. ” – AA Milne
4. “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. ” – AA Milne
5. “ Dig a little deeper. Think of something that we've never thought of before. ” – AA Milne
6. “ Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day. ” – AA Milne
7. “ 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. ” – AA Milne
8. “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 ” – AA Milne

 

AA Milne Funny Quotes

1. “ It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch? " – AA Milne
2. “ “Oh Tigger, where are your manners?” “I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.” – AA Milne
3. “ Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tigers is I'm the only one! ” – AA Milne
4. “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. ” – AA Milne
5. “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. ” – AA Milne
6. “They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them. ” – AA Milne
7. “ Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject. ” – AA Milne
8. “A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion. ” – AA Milne
9. “Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard. ” – AA Milne

 

AA Milne Quotes About Love

1. “ Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more... to give way to the happiness of the person you love. ” – AA Milne
2. “Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it. ” – AA Milne
3. “'Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. ” – AA Milne
4. “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. ” – AA Milne
5. “ Piglet: “How do you spell ‘love’?” Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it." ” – AA Milne
6. “ I used to believe in forever, but forever’s too good to be true ” – AA Milne
7. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ” – AA Milne
8. “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. “Pooh?” he said. “Yes, Piglet?” “Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s hand. “I just wanted to be sure of you.” – AA Milne
9. “A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference. ” – AA Milne
10. “We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see. ” – AA Milne
11. “Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ” – AA Milne
12. “I just wanted to be sure of you. ” – AA Milne

 

AA Milne Quotes About Friends

1. “When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way. ” – AA Milne
2. “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 someone to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer. ” – AA Milne
3. “What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. ” – AA Milne
4. “ Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ” – AA Milne
5. “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. ” – AA Milne
6. “Some people care too much. I think it's called love. ” – AA Milne
7. “You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. ” – AA Milne
8. “We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered. ” – AA Milne
9. “Friendship,” said Christopher Robin, “is a very comforting thing to have. ” – AA Milne
10. “ We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see ” – AA Milne
11. “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. ” – AA Milne
12. “A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside. ” – AA Milne
13. “ Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by. ” – AA Milne
14. “Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about. ” – AA Milne
15. “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. ” – AA Milne
16. “ Friendship, Trying, Doorways ” – AA Milne
17. “It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't. ” – AA Milne
18. “It's so much more friendly with two. ” – AA Milne
19. “Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. ” – AA Milne

 

AA Milne Quotes About Books

1. “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. ” – AA Milne
2. “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. ” – AA Milne
3. “ So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book. ” – AA Milne
4. “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. ” – AA Milne
5. “Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this. ” – AA Milne
6. “ Then you would read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness. ” – AA Milne
7. “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. ” – AA Milne

 

AA Milne Quotes About Life

1. “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. ” – AA Milne
2. “One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. ” – AA Milne
3. “If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. ” – AA Milne
4. “I do like a little bit of butter to my bread. ” – AA Milne
5. “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. ” – AA Milne
6. “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. ” – AA Milne
7. “What I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it. It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." "Oh!" said Pooh. ” – AA Milne
8. “How long does getting thin take? ” – AA Milne
9. “The other day I met a man who didn't know where Tripoli was. Tripoli happened to come into the conversation, and he was evidently at a loss. “Let’s see,” he said. “Tripoli is just down by the - er - you know. What's the name of that place?" "That's right," I answered, "just opposite, Thingumabob. I could show you in a minute on a map. It's near - what do they call it?" At this moment the train stopped, and I got out and went straight home to look at my atlas. ” – AA Milne
10. “ Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake. ” – AA Milne
11. “No brain at all, some of them [people], only gray fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't think. ” – AA Milne
12. “ Mistake, Thinking, People ” – AA Milne
13. “A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man. ” – AA Milne

 

AA Milne Quotes About Animals

1. “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. ” – AA Milne
2. “ 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 ” – AA Milne
3. “ straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there. ” – AA Milne
4. “It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal. ” – AA Milne
5. “He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him. ” – AA Milne
6. “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. ” – AA Milne
7. “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 to her, but she decided that gray did not suit her. ” – AA Milne
8. “ Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. ” – AA Milne
9. “Why does a silly bird go on saying “chiff-chaff” all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups? ” – AA Milne
10. “A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly. ” – AA Milne
11. “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! ” – AA Milne

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