A.A. Milne Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.”

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

“You are stronger than you seem,
Braver than you believe,
and smarter than you think you are.”

“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,
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!"”

“Then Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh walked hand in hand down the forest path and they said goodbye. So they went off together. But 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 and waiting.”

“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."”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”

“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.”

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

“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Oh Tigger, where are your manners?"

"I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.”

“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.”

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

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

“Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Think it over, think it under.”

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

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

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”

“I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.”

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

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

“I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.”

“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 on the way.”

“Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain."
"I know," said Pooh humbly.”

“Because my spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

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

“You never can tell with bees.”

“There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said "Nobody.”

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