Quotes from A. A. Milne


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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.


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


You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.


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


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


To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.


The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.


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


Tiggers don't like honey.


Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.


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


Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.


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.


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


My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.


The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.


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


Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.


If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.


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