Best quotes by A. A. Milne

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.

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

It looks like a bothering sort of day.

How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!

Halfway down the stairs, is a stair, where I sit. There isn't any, other stair, quite like, it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top; So this is the stair, where, I always, stop. Halfway up the stairs, isn't up, and isn't down. It isn't in the nursery, it isn't in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts, run round my head: It isn't really anywhere! It's somewhere else instead!

Time for a little something.

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!

Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

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.

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there.

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.

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

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

We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see

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

The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!

Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.

When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.

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

Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.

When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.

A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.

I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn't anymore.

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.

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.

Dig a little deeper. Think of something that we've never thought of before.

I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.

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

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.

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

What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh.

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.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

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

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

Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.

Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.

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

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

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

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

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.

When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

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

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.

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

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.