Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. These A A Milne quotes will inspire you.
Best A A Milne Quotes
- “If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.” ~ A. A. Milne, A A Milne quotes on being brave
- “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.” ~ A. A. Milne
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“Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Sometimes,’ said Pooh, ‘the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.” ~ A. A. Milne, A A Milne quotes on heart
- “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – A A Milne Quotes
- “One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing” ~ A. A. Milne
- “A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.” ~ A. A. Milne”The things that make me different are the things that make me.” ~ A. A. Milne
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“Piglet: “How do you spell ‘love’?” Winnie the Pooh: “You don’t spell it…you feel it.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “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.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Friendship,” said Christopher Robin, “is a very comforting thing to have.” ~ A. A. Milne, A A Milne quotes on friendship
- “One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “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.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “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.” ~ A. A. Milne
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“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “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.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “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.” ~ A. A. Milne
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“To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “What day is it?” It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. My favorite day,” said Pooh.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “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.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “We’ll be Friends Forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet. Even longer,’ Pooh answered.” ~ A. A. Milne
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“A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more … to give way to the happiness of the person you love.” ~ A. A. Milne, A A Milne Quotes on love
- “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” ~ A. A. Milne
- “If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” ~ A. A. Milne
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“You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “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.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “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.” ~ A. A. Milne
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“It looks like a bothering sort of day.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “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.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “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.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “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.” ~ A. A. Milne
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“We’ll be friends until forever, just you wait and see” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “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!” ~ A. A. Milne
- “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.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “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 counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle, and golf course.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “You can’t help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn’t spell it right; but spelling isn’t everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn’t count.” ~ A. A. Milne
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“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “When late morning rolls around and you’re feeling a bit out of sorts, don’t worry; you’re probably just a little eleven o’clockish.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look Ready for Anything.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “But, of course, it isn’t really Goodbye, because the Forest will always be there… and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Good morning, Eeyore,” said Pooh. “Good morning, Pooh Bear,” said Eeyore gloomily. “If it is a good morning, which I doubt,” said he. “Why, what’s the matter?” “Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can’t all, and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.” “Can’t all what?” said Pooh, rubbing his nose. “Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.” ~ A. A. Milne
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“Some have brains, and some haven’t, and there it is.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.” ~ A. A. Milne
