A. A. Milne Quotes

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.

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.

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.

But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.

There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in.

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

A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.

Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.

Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups?

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 along the way.

Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.

Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he. "Why, what's the matter?" "Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.

Some have brains, and some haven't, and there it is.

Whereas men of an older school, like myself, smoke for the pleasure of smoking, men of this school smoke for the pleasure of pipe-owning-of selecting which of their many white-spotted pipes they will fill with their specially blended tobacco, of filling the one so chosen, of lighting it, of taking it from the mouth to gaze lovingly at the white spot and thus letting it go out, of lighting it again and letting it go out again, of polishing it up with their own special polisher and putting it to bed, and then the pleasure of beginning all over again with another white-spotted one.

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.

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.

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

When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever, So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.

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

Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred.

Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.

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.

Brains first and then Hard Work.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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.

Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.