A. A. Milne

Author

1882-01-18 – 1956-01-31

Alan Alexander Milne was an English writer best known for the Winnie-the-Pooh books and children's poetry.

Quotes by A. A. Milne

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.
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"How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet "You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh
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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.
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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.
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Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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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.
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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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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 says anything-so There is no one but me.
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I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.
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