Top 100 Milne's Quotes
#1. It isn't as easy as I thought. I suppose that's why Heffalumps hardly ever get caught.
A.A. Milne
#2. How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
Evans G. Valens
#3. Forever isn't long at all, Christopher, as long as I'm with you.
A.A. Milne
#4. 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
#5. When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
A.A. Milne
#6. Oh Tigger, where are your manners?"
"I don't know, but I bet they're having more fun than I am.
A.A. Milne
#7. He could see the honey, he could smell the honey, but he couldn't quite reach the honey.
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#8. How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
A.A. Milne
#9. "I just like to know," said Pooh humbly.
A.A. Milne
#10. 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
#11. 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
#13. 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.
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#14. Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
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#16. Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
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#17. Life is so much friendlier with two.
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#18. When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.
A.A. Milne
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.
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#23. A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
A.A. Milne
#24. You mean Piglet. The little fellow with the excited ears. That's Piglet.
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#25. 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
#27. We have substantially improved our position in Japan which now represents a major part of our business.
David Milne
#28. 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
#29. Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
A.A. Milne
#30. 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
#31. I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
A.A. Milne
#32. A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A.A. Milne
#33. It's so much more friendly with two.
A.A. Milne
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.
A.A. Milne
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.
A.A. Milne
#44. 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
#45. 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.
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#46. I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
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#47. That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself."
"I am," said Pooh.
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#48. 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
#49. War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
A.A. Milne
#50. 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.
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#51. Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up.
A.A. Milne
#52. I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
A.A. Milne
#53. It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come. -Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A. Milne
#54. Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.
A.A. Milne
#55. Making negative assumptions based on a person's weight is never healthy. Overweight or thin, it sends the same damaging message: Your body does not conform.
Melissa Milne
#56. Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.
A.A. Milne
#58. All the action, in semiconductors at the present time is in the new consumer applications, and that's where we have focused our activities since we started doing our own products in the late '90s.
David Milne
#59. Christopher Robin ... just said it had an "x."' 'It isn't their necks I mind,' said Piglet earnestly. 'It's their teeth.
A.A. Milne
#60. 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.A. Milne
#61. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. Would you write 'A Happy Birthday' on it for me?
A.A. Milne
#62. 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
A.A. Milne
#63. Paula Milne was really the first thing that drew me to 'The Politician's Husband.'
David Tennant
#64. I didn't bounce, I coughed," said Tigger crossly.
"Bouncy or coffy, it's all the same at the bottom of the river.
A.A. Milne
#65. 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.
A.A. Milne
#66. Hallo, Eeyore."
"Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily.
Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house.
A.A. Milne
#67. How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively.
'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar,' Piglet replied.
'You mean to die?' asked Pooh.
'Yes and no,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on.
A.A. Milne
#68. Hallo, Rabbit," he said, "is that you?"
"Let's pretend it isn't," said Rabbit, "and see what happens.
A.A. Milne
#69. To her-
Hand in hand we come
Christopher Robin and I
To lay this book in your lap.
Say you're surprised?
Say you like it?
Say it's just what you wanted?
Because it's yours-
because we love you.
A.A. Milne
#70. Thank you, Christopher Robin. You're the only one who seems to understand about tails. They don't think - that's what's the matter with some of these others. They've no imagination. A tail isn't a tail to them, it's just a Little Bit Extra at the back.
A.A. Milne
#71. 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.
A.A. Milne
#72. It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.
A.A. Milne
#73. Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
A.A. Milne
#74. I do remember,' explained Christopher Robin, 'only Pooh doesn't very well, so that's why he likes having it told to him again. Because then it's a real story and not just a remembering.
A.A. Milne
#75. It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
A.A. Milne
#76. So wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
"What would I do?" I said to Pooh,
"If it wasn't for you," and Pooh said to me: "True,
It isn't much fun for One, but Two
Can stick together," says Pooh, says he.
"That's how it is," says Pooh.
A.A. Milne
#77. We can't all and some of us don't. That's all there is to it.
A.A. Milne
#78. Well, did Owl always have a letter-box in his ceiling?"
"Has he?"
"Yes, look."
"I can't," said Pooh. "I'm face downwards under something, and that, Piglet, is a very bad position for looking at ceilings."
"Well, he has, Pooh."
"Perhaps he's changed it," said Pooh. "Just for a change.
A.A. Milne
#79. 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.
A.A. Milne
#80. My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A.A. Milne
#81. What day is it?', asked Winnie the Pooh.
'It's today,' squeaked Piglet.
'My favorite day,' said Pooh."
- The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
A.A. Milne
#82. Christopher Robin nodded. "Then there's only one thing to be done," he said. "We shall have to wait for you to get thin again." "How long does getting thin take?" asked Pooh anxiously. "About a week, I should think.
A.A. Milne
#83. Eeyore, the old grey donkey, stood by the side of the stream and looked at himself in the water. "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."
A.A. Milne
#84. No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.
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#85. 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.
A.A. Milne
#86. Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; He thinks I'm another sort of funny thing, But he doesn't know I'm fishing - He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what I'm doing - Fishing.
A.A. Milne
#87. If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!
A.A. Milne
#88. The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!
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#89. 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?
A.A. Milne
#90. 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.
A.A. Milne
#91. Country of Origin labelling is something that consumers really want, and I think it's critical to support Australian farmers.
Christine Milne
#92. Here I am in the dark alone, What is it going to be? I can think whatever I like to think, I can play whatever I like to play, I can laugh whatever I like to laugh, There's nobody here but me.
A.A. Milne
#93. TO
MY COLLABORATOR
who buys the ink and paper
laughs
and, in fact, does all the really difficult
part of the business
this book is gratefully dedicated
in memory of a winter's morning
in Switzerland
A.A. Milne
#94. I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
A.A. Milne
#95. That's what Jagulars always do," said Pooh, much interested. "They call 'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they drop on you."
"I'm looking down," cried Piglet loudly, so as the Jagular shouldn't do the wrong thing by accident.
A.A. Milne
#96. But it's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.
A.A. Milne
#97. What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh.
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#98. It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is."
"And freezing."
"Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.
A.A. Milne
#99. In a very little time they got to the corner of the field by the side of the pine wood where Eeyore's house wasn't any longer.
'There!' said Eeyore. 'Not a stick of it left! Of course, I've still got all this snow to do what I like with. One mustn't complain.
A.A. Milne
#100. Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
A.A. Milne
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