A.A. Milne Quotes (169 quotes) | Quotes of famous people

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Seven.
Context: "Lucky we know the forest so well, or we might get lost," said Rabbit half an hour later, and he gave the careless laugh which you give when you know the Forest so well that you can't get lost.
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.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

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

A.A. Milne

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

A.A. Milne

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

A.A. Milne

Variant: Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in our hearts.

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

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 book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

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

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

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

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

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

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 book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

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

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“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

“Oh Tigger, where are your manners?"

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

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

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

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

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

A.A. Milne

“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.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“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 book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Six - "In which Pooh invents a new game and Eeyore joins in".
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

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

A.A. Milne

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

()”

A.A. Milne

Source: If I May

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

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“Think it over, think it under.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Variant: Think, think, think.
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

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

A.A. Milne

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

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

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

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

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

A.A. Milne book When We Were Very Young

Source: When We Were Very Young

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

A.A. Milne

“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.”

A.A. Milne

War with Honour http://books.google.com/books?id=QmQDAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;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+with+the+minority+and+a+first+rate+mind+was+only+happy+when+it+was+thinking&quot;, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940).

“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.”

A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Seven.

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

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

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

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter Six - Pooh.

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

A.A. Milne

“You never can tell with bees.”