Quotes by A. A. Milne

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

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

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

“To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.”

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

“Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. ”

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

“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 think...”

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

“They have almost brought it off, the War to End Peace, for which they have been striving for three years. What an incredible joke! A war 'to defend the freedom of the Straits and the sanctity of ou...”

“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.”

“I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate...”

“They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace — Christopher Robin went down with Alice.They've great big parties inside the grounds.I wouldn't be king for a hundred pounds,Says Alice.”

“James James Morrison MorrisonWeatherby George DupreeTook great care of his motherThough he was only three.James James said to his motherMother he said, said he:You mustn't go down to the end of the...”

“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...”

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels...”

“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. Then he thought another long time, and said: An...”

“Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and when Rabbit said, Honey or condensed milk with your br...”

“What? said Piglet, with a jump. And then, to show that he hadn't been frightened, he jumped up and down once or twice more in an exercising sort of way.”

“I have been Foolish and Deluded, said he, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.”