Top 100 Milne Quotes
#1. Famous INFPs include Isabel Myers (creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), St. John the disciple, Carl Rogers, Princess Diana, George Orwell, Audrey Hepburn, Fred Rogers, A.A. Milne, Helen Keller, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Julia Roberts, and William Shakespeare.
Molly Owens
#2. You are braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
From A. A. Milne, author of Winnie-the-Pooh
Susana Gordon
#3. Paula Milne was really the first thing that drew me to 'The Politician's Husband.'
David Tennant
#4. I was born in Amersham, England on 6/4/58. My family moved to Australia when I was eight, and I went to Box Hill High School and then Melbourne High School. I liked to draw and write at school, and I liked books by J.R.R. Tolkien, A.A. Milne and Kenneth Grahame.
Graeme Base
#5. Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army.
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
#6. It isn't as easy as I thought. I suppose that's why Heffalumps hardly ever get caught.
A.A. Milne
#7. How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
Evans G. Valens
#8. Forever isn't long at all, Christopher, as long as I'm with you.
A.A. Milne
#9. It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the Forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying to Pooh, 'Don't listen to Rabbit, listen to me.' So he got in a comfortable position for not listening to Rabbit.
A.A. Milne
#10. When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
A.A. Milne
#11. Oh Tigger, where are your manners?"
"I don't know, but I bet they're having more fun than I am.
A.A. Milne
#12. He could see the honey, he could smell the honey, but he couldn't quite reach the honey.
A.A. Milne
#13. How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
A.A. Milne
#14. "I just like to know," said Pooh humbly.
A.A. Milne
#15. When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.
A.A. Milne
#16. Honey or condensed milk with your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, "but don't bother about the bread, please.
A.A. Milne
#18. Let's look for dragons, I said to Pooh.
Yes, let's, said Pooh to Me.
We crossed the river and found a few
Yes, those are dragons all right, said Pooh.
As soon as I saw their beaks I knew.
That's what they are, said Pooh, said he.
That's what they are, said Pooh.
A.A. Milne
#19. Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
A.A. Milne
#21. Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
A.A. Milne
#22. Life is so much friendlier with two.
A.A. Milne
#23. When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.
A.A. Milne
#24. 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.
A.A. Milne
#25. If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
A.A. Milne
#26. Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal, that it would seem an ideal medium.
David Milne
#27. Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.
A.A. Milne
#28. A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
A.A. Milne
#29. You mean Piglet. The little fellow with the excited ears. That's Piglet.
A.A. Milne
#30. Piglet thought that they ought to have a Reason for going to see everybody, like Looking for Small or Organizing an Expotition, if Pooh could think of something.
Pooh could.
"We'll go because it's Thursday," he said, "and we'll go to wish everybody a Very Happy Thursday. Come on, Piglet.
A.A. Milne
#32. We have substantially improved our position in Japan which now represents a major part of our business.
David Milne
#33. I might have known," said Eeyore. "After all, one can't complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said 'Bother!'. The Social Round. Always something going on.
A.A. Milne
#34. Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
A.A. Milne
#35. I don't really like to talk specifically about customers by name - but we work with nearly all the leading manufacturers of consumer products worldwide and at quite a detailed engineering level.
David Milne
#36. I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
A.A. Milne
#37. A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A.A. Milne
#38. It's so much more friendly with two.
A.A. Milne
#39. God is at the helm even when you think your ship is sinking. Just keep trusting that the captain knows more about where you're heading than you do, and eventually you'll get where you need to be.
Kevin Alan Milne
#40. If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee.
A.A. Milne
#41. Well, you both went out with the blue balloon, and you took your gun with you, just in case, as you always did,
A.A. Milne
#42. I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.
A.A. Milne
#43. I want to be really proactive in working with the progressive business community in Australia and also reaching out to rural and regional Australia in order to assist in the sustainability crisis and the food security crisis.
Christine Milne
#44. I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.
A.A. Milne
#45. 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.
A.A. Milne
#46. I have a house where I go,
When there's too many people,
I have a house where I go
Where no one can be;
I have a house where I go,
Where nobody ever says "no"
Where no one says anything - so
There is no one but me.
A.A. Milne
#47. Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.
A.A. Milne
#49. The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh:
I suppose all these people know better than I.
It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view
Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).
A.A. Milne
#50. WHERE did you say it was?' asked Pooh.
Just here,' said Eeyore.
Made of sticks?'
Yes'
Oh!' said Piglet.
What?' said Eeyore.
I just said "Oh!"' said Piglet nervously. And so as to seem quite at ease he hummed Tiddely-pom once or twice in a what-shall-we-do-now kind of way.
A.A. Milne
#51. Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.
A.A. Milne
#52. One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries
A.A. Milne
#53. Eighteen pockets in one suit? I haven't the time.
A.A. Milne
#54. 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.
A.A. Milne
#55. I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
A.A. Milne
#56. 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
#57. 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.
A.A. Milne
#58. King John was not a good man -
He had his little ways.
And sometimes no one spoke to him
For days and days and days.
A.A. Milne
#59. If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together there is something you must always remember ...
A.A. Milne
#60. 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
#61. Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.
A.A. Milne
#62. I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.
A.A. Milne
#63. It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like What about lunch?
A.A. Milne
#64. Watching the destruction of our planet makes me feel a gloomy as a penguin in a pigpen.
D.J. Milne
#65. That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself."
"I am," said Pooh.
A.A. Milne
#66. 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.
A.A. Milne
#67. HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY. Pooh
A.A. Milne
#68. I say," began Piglet, "don't you think goodreads could do something about quote verification, what with that Kindle plugin and all? Most of these quotes are balderdash, and they're being repeated everywhere.
A.A. Milne
#69. We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.
David Milne
#70. Another dynamic of this last year was our increased penetration into the Japanese market.
David Milne
#71. Oh, help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back."
"Oh, bother!" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on."
"I can't do either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help and bother!
Milne, A. A.
#72. But I can't stay here for a week!"
"You can stay here all right, silly old Bear. It's getting you out which is so difficult.
A.A. Milne
#73. War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
A.A. Milne
#74. I have been Foolish and Deluded," said he, "and I am a Bear of No Brain at All." "You're the Best Bear in All the World," said Christopher Robin soothingly. "Am I?" said Pooh hopefully. And then he brightened up suddenly. "Anyhow," he said, "it is nearly Luncheon Time." So he went home for it.
A.A. Milne
#75. To seem natural rather than to be natural.
A.A. Milne
#76. From what I've read of detective stories, inspectors always do want to drag the pond first.
A.A. Milne
#77. 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.
A.A. Milne
#78. Dig a little deeper. Think of something that we've never thought of before.
A.A. Milne
#79. It is hard to be brave,' said Piglet, sniffing slightly, 'when you're only a Very Small Animal.
A.A. Milne
#80. I always did whatever I liked," she said, "but now I really can do it.
A.A. Milne
#81. You are braver than you believe,
Stronger than you seem,
And smarter than you think(:
A.A. Milne
#82. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.
A.A. Milne
#83. If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
A.A. Milne
#84. There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
A.A. Milne
#85. You know, when once you've discovered a secret yourself, it always seems as if it must be so obvious to everybody else.
A.A. Milne
#86. [A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
(The Record Lie)
A.A. Milne
#87. Are you prepared to have quite
obvious things explained to you, to ask futile questions, to give me
chances of scoring off you, to make brilliant discoveries of your own
two or three days after I have made them myself all that kind of thing?
A.A. Milne
#89. Oh, Bear!" said Christopher Robin. "How I do love you!" "So do I," said Pooh.
A.A. Milne
#90. 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.
A.A. Milne
#91. Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up.
A.A. Milne
#92. To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.
A.A. Milne
#93. It looks like a bothering sort of day.
A.A. Milne
#94. There is a wide range of opportunities for us and we see a main part of our strategy as being a company that supplies products across a range of different end applications and indeed we have quite a wide product portfolio which we enhance each year.
David Milne
#95. Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A.A. Milne
#96. She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.
A.A. Milne
#97. I'm Short and fat and proud of that!!
A.A. Milne
#98. She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: Winter is dead.
A.A. Milne
#99. And then we'll go out, Piglet, and sing my song to Eeyore."
"Which song, Pooh?"
"The one we're going to sing to Eeyore," explained Pooh.
A.A. Milne
#100. You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
A.A. Milne
