A.A. Milne: Thing

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

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

“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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“So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.”

“They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.”

“His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.”

“The things that make me different are the things that make me ME. -Piglet”

“The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.”

“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.”

“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.”

“But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you.”

“And now all the others are saying, "What about Us?" So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.”

“"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.”

“Now it happened that Kanga had felt rather motherly that morning, and Wanting to Count Things — like Roo's vests, and how many pieces of soap there were left, and the two clean spots in Tigger's feeder.”