Words matter. These are the best A. A. Milne Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
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.
Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can’t hear, and not bothering.
War is something of man’s own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.
Tiggers don’t like honey.
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.
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.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
No sensible author wants anything but praise.
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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 writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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.
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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.
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.
