A.A. Milne citations

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“On Wednesday, when the sky is blue,
and I have nothing else to do,
I sometimes wonder if it's true
That who is what and what is who."
- Winnie-the-Pooh”

“Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.”

“He respects owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right.”

“Forever isn't long at all, Christopher, as long as I'm with you.”

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

“That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself."
"I am," said Pooh.”

“What do you say, Pooh?"
Pooh opened his eyes with a jerk and said, "Extremely."
"Extremely what?" asked Rabbit.
"What you were saying," said Pooh. "Undoubtably.”

“It's your fault, Eeyore. You've never been to see any of us. You just stay here in this one corner of the Forest waiting for the others to come to you. Why don't you go to THEM sometimes?”

“He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.”

“And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh.
Eeyore shook his head from side to side.
"Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time."
"Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I'm sorry about that. Let's have a look at you.”

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

“When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.”

“I alwayswhatever I liked," she said, "but now I reallydo it.”

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

“It's so much more friendly with two.”

“Hello Rabbit, is that you?""Let's pretend it isn't", said Rabbit, "and see what happens.”

“If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.”

“And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself,
"it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "which it is," he added. "so there you are.”

“Wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
Whatever I do, he wants to do,
"Where are you going today?" says Pooh:
"Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too.
Let's go together," says Pooh, says he.
"Let's go together," says Pooh.”

“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.”

“When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.”

“And I’d say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea:
“There’s nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.”

“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.”

“Christopher Robin… just said it had an "x."' 'It isn't their necks I mind,' said Piglet earnestly. 'It's their teeth.”

“Walking with her man,
Lost in a dream”

“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.”

“James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.”

“Oh, Bear!” said Christopher Robin. “How I do love you!” “So do I,” said Pooh.”