A.A. Milne Quotes

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 think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a Prime Minister.

No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.

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

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

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

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

Life is so much friendlier with two.

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.

If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: 'Doesn't the sky look green today?

What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.

"I just like to know," said Pooh humbly.

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.

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

Owl,' said Rabbit shortly, 'you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is easy thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it.

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.

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).

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

Sing Ho for the Life of a Bear

Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.

I just wanted to be sure of you.

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

Walking with her man, Lost in a dream

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

And that, said John, is that.

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.

To seem natural rather than to be natural.

Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.

When I was young, we always had mornings like this.

It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.

Gone out. Backson. Busy backson.

I have achieved what I set out to achieve when I took over the leadership. The Greens have gone from strength to strength with solid election results and a growing, engaged party membership.

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.

We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now.

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

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

One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

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.

Oh Tigger, where are your manners?""I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.

Think, think, think.

Pooh, " said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know, " said Pooh humbly.

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

[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.")

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.

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.

I wonder what Piglet is doing, " thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.Even longer, ' Pooh answered.” Winnie-the-Pooh