A. A. Milne Quotes:

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

Topics: Inspirational, Believe, Thinking, Infertility, Times Have Changed

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

Topics: Motivational, Gratitude, Heart, Inspirational Gratitude, Gratitude And Appreciation

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.

Topics: Song, Morning, Doubt, Song And Dance, Mulberry

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.

Topics: Love, Friendship, Positive, Tigger, Bff

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

Topics: Love, Inspirational, Friendship, Importunate, Caring Too Much

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

Topics: Relationship, Sympathy, Heart, Inspirational Baby, Winni The Pooh

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

Topics: Never Forget, Forget, Forget Me, Tigger, I Ll Miss You

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

Topics: Life, Beauty, Beautiful, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Inspirational

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

Topics: Love, Missing You, Thinking Of You, Relatable, Just Thinking Of You

She turned to the sunlight     And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor:     "Winter is dead.

Topics: Spring, Winter, Yellow

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

source: - A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com

Topics: Inspirational, Thinking, Grieving, Handy

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

Topics: Travel, May, Lost, Pooh Bear Friend

They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.

Topics: Funny, Funny Things, Accidents, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Book

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.

Topics: Book, Golf, Religion

How long does getting thin take?

Topics: Loss, Weight Loss, Long

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

Topics: Planning, Organised, Organized Life, Organizing Things

Of beer, an enthusiast has said that it could never be bad, but that some brands might be better than others.

Topics: Beer, Might, Said, Brewing Beer

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.

Topics: Tree, Piglet, Said, Winni The Pooh, Pooh And Piglet

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

Topics: Success, Writing, Fame, Novel Writing, Money And Fame

But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer.

Topics: Sleep, Insomnia, Sheep

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

Topics: Character, Watches

Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.

Topics: Naps, Two, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Life

His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.

Topics: Dresses, Faces, Glad

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.

Topics: Friendship, Relationship, Family, Bff, Family Relationship

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

Topics: Beauty, Food, Likes

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.

Topics: Friendship, Relationship, Confidence, Makes You Stronger, Long Relationship

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.

Topics: Earning, Quiet, Sometimes

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

Topics: Live In The Moment, Piglet, Today, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Book

But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

Topics: Bye, Friendly, Forests

On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.

Topics: Tuesday, Snow, Feelings

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

Topics: Friendship, Comforting, Robins, Pooh Bear Friend

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

Topics: Beauty, Travel, Adventure, Winnie The Pooh Friend, Pooh Bear Friend

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

Topics: Tails, Cute Winnie The Pooh

When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.

Topics: Opposites, Long, Owl, Long Words

Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.

Topics: Home, Owl, Tea, Afternoon Tea, Tea Time

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

Topics: Travel, Talking, People

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

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.93, Egmont UK

Topics: Inspirational, Friendship, Relationship, Inspirational Friendship, Altruism

Tut, Tut, looks like rain

Topics: Rain, Looks

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.

Topics: Friendship, Boys, Grieving, Stillbirth, Winnie The Pooh Friend

Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.

Topics: Rivers, Long, Feelings

Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.

Topics: Islands, Ordinary, Robins

You never can tell with bees.

Topics: Bees, Night Time, Winni The Pooh, Pooh Bear Friend, Cute Winnie The Pooh

To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.

Topics: Book, Love You, Hands

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.

Topics: Tea, Forget

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

Topics: Graduation, Education, Memorable, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Inspirational

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

Topics: Friendship, Forever, Piglet, Bff, Eternal Friendship

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

Topics: Mistake, Watches, Pieces, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Inspirational

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

Topics: Happiness, Appreciation, Retirement, Always Happy, Joy Happiness

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

Topics: Friendship, Two, Monsters

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.

Topics: Adventure, Doors, Robins

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.

Topics: Morning, Food, Pigs, Winni The Pooh, Pooh And Piglet

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.

Topics: Tuesday, Helping, Spelling, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Book

Think it over, think it under.

Topics: Thinking

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

Topics: Heart, Ideas, Mind

I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.

Topics: Rabbits, Apple Pie, Way, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Book

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

Topics: Writing, Play, History

Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one!

Topics: Fun, Tigger, Wonderful, Winni The Pooh, Pooh Bear Friend

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

Topics: Life, Liars, Lying

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

Topics: Fitness, Exercise, Trying, Physical Fitness, Fluff

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 that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

Topics: Thinking, Bears, Robins

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

Topics: Life, Cute, Science, Social Organization, Clean House

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

Topics: Silly, Writing, Stuff, Winnie The Pooh Book, Silly Stuff

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.

Topics: Teacher, Sweet, Talking, Fluff, Winni The Pooh

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Topics: Relationship, Goodbye, Distance, Love Is Hard, Back Together

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.

Topics: Weather, Numbers, Conversation

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Cute, Winnie The Pooh Book, Winnie The Pooh Inspirational

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.

Topics: Winter, Ideas, Piglet, Winter Months

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

Topics: Friendship, Honey, Pot, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Friend

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.

Topics: Running, Rivers, Too Late

But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

Topics: Math, Two, Piglet, Pooh And Piglet, Pooh Piglet

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.

Topics: Happiness, Happy, Thinking, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Book

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

Topics: Writing, Letters, Spelling, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Book

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

Topics: Attention, Might, Pay, Where You Are Going, Pooh Bear Friend

I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true

Topics: Relationship, Believe, Forever, Cute Relationship, Winni The Pooh

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

Topics: Inspirational, Friendship, Positive, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Book

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

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Winnie The Pooh Life, Pooh And Piglet

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.

Topics: Happiness, Integrity, Thinking, Mind Thinking, Thinking Mind

Brains first and then Hard Work.

Topics: Work, Hard Work, Brain

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

Topics: Friendship, Teacher, Fun, Inspiring Friends, Long Friendship

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

Topics: Kindness, Mean, Animal, Tigger, Winnie The Pooh Book

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

Topics: Children, Adventure, Mets, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Inspirational

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

Topics: Buddhist, Rivers, Perserverance, Keep Patience, Fluff

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

Topics: Love, Relationship, Piglet, Tigger, Winni The 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.

Topics: Attitude, Earthquakes, Snow, Freezing

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.

Topics: Time, Opportunity, Race

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.

Topics: Life, Meaningful, Native American, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Inspirational

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

Topics: Favorite Day, Movie Love, Today, Winnie The Pooh Friend, Winnie The Pooh Life

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

Topics: Love, Inspirational, I Miss You, I Missed You, Promise Me

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.

Topics: Inspirational, Adventure, Looks

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

Topics: Friendship, Relationship, I Like You, Winnie The Pooh Friend, Pooh Bear Friend

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

source: - "Fictional character: Winnie The Pooh". "Christopher Robin", www.imdb.com. 2018.

Topics: Funny, Inspiring, Witty, Nothing Is Impossible, My Attitude

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

Topics: Way, Tao Of Pooh, Can Do

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

Topics: Thinking, Relaxation, Sometimes, Winni The Pooh, Calm Down

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

Topics: Men, Thinking, Average, Waiting For Something, Always Waiting

Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

Topics: Love Is, Giving, Way, Winnie The Pooh Inspirational, Winnie The Pooh Life

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.

source: - "Peace with Honour: An Enquiry Into the War Convention". Book by A. A. Milne, 1934.

Topics: Europe, Two, People

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

Topics: Inspirational, Thinking, Littles

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

source: - "Winnie-the-Pooh".

Topics: Brain, Havens

Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.

Topics: Inspirational, Thinking, Feels

Time for a little something.

source: - 'Winnie-the-Pooh' (1926) ch. 6

Topics: Time, Littles

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!

source: - When We Were Very Young "Spring Morning" l. 17 (1924)

Topics: Wind, Bird, Today

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

source: - 'Winnie-the-Pooh' (1926) ch. 6

Topics: Bird, Tao Of Pooh

Life is so much friendlier with two.

Topics: Funny Friend, Two, Life Is

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

Topics: Friendship, Doors, Lows, Knockers

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.

Topics: Tea, Piglet, Honey, Winni The Pooh, Pooh And Piglet

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.

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.5, Egmont UK

Topics: Zoos, Animal, Past

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

Topics: Letting Go, Leave Me Alone, Time To Let Go, Winnie The Pooh Life, Pooh Bear Friend

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.

Topics: Funny, Witty, Class

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

Topics: Song, Advice, Add

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

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.21, Egmont UK

Topics: Trying, Remember, Forget, Pooh Bear Friend

When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.

Topics: Giving, Honey, Jars

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

Topics: Fun, Tigger, Manners

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

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.59, Egmont UK

Topics: Depression, Mulberry, Winnie The Pooh Friend

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

source: - A. A. Milne (2002). “Pooh's House”, Dutton Childrens Books

Topics: Friendship, Cute Love, Happiness, Always Happy, Just Be Happy

What ever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Topics: Fear, Action, Fortune

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Not That it Matters”, p.22, The Floating Press

Topics: Golf, Games, World, Inspirational Golf, Funny Golf

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

source: - A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.38, Egmont UK

Topics: Winni The Pooh, Pooh Bear Friend, Walking

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!

source: - A. A. Milne (1999). “Pooh to Grow on”, E P Dutton

Topics: Running, Somewhere Else, Nurse, Funny Thoughts

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.

source: - A. A. Milne (1999). “Pooh to Grow on”, E P Dutton

Topics: Clever, Thinking, Two

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.

Topics: Morning, Justice, Worry, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Book

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Not That it Matters”, p.52, The Floating Press

Topics: Latin, Said, Respectable

It's so much more friendly with two.

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.102, Egmont UK

Topics: Friendship, Two, Friendly, Winnie The Pooh Friend, Pooh And Piglet

It looks like a bothering sort of day.

source: - A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.35, Egmont UK

Topics: Looks, Bother

She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Once on a Time”, p.206, The Floating Press

Topics: Retirement, Bird, Tree

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.

source: - A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.93, Egmont UK

Topics: Two, Paws, Remember, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Book

A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.

Topics: Funny, Dog, Pet

Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.

Topics: Wise, Liking Someone, Looking For Love, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Book

So - here I am in the dark alone, There's nobody here to see; I think to myself, I play to myself, And nobody knows what I say to myself; Here I am in the dark alone, What is it going to be? I can think whatever I like to think, I can play whatever I like to play, I can laugh whatever I like to laugh, There's nobody here but me.

Topics: Dark, Thinking, Here I Am

Forever isn't long at all, Christopher, as long as I'm with you.

Topics: Long, Forever

Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred.

Topics: Remember You, Remembers You, Promise, Forget Me, Promise Me

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

source: - Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) ch. 1

Topics: Sweet, Clouds, Blue

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

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.6, Egmont UK

Topics: Book, Writing, Introduction, Winni The Pooh

It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.

source: - A. A. Milne (2013). “Once On A Time”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Running, Book, People

I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.

Topics: Wish, Piglet, Wonder, Importunate, Winni The Pooh

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

source: - "Not That It Matters".

Topics: Beauty, Food, Home Cooking, Eating Food, Great Food

She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead.

source: - A.A. Milne (1950). “When We Were Very Young”, GoodBook Classics

Topics: Spring, Winter, Yellow

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.

Topics: Dream, People, Fifty

Wherever I am, there's always Pooh, There's always Pooh and Me. Whatever I do, he wants to do, "Where are you going today?" says Pooh: "Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too. Let's go together," says Pooh, says he. "Let's go together," says Pooh.

source: - A. A. Milne (2011). “Now We Are Six”, p.42, Egmont UK

Topics: Together, Want, Today

What I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it. It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." "Oh!" said Pooh.

Topics: Mean, Long, People, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Life

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.

source: - 1919 Not That It Matters.

Topics: Winning, Chess, Impossible, Board Games

But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

source: - A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.115, Egmont UK

Topics: Cute Winnie The Pooh, Easy, Said, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Book

Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this.

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.101, Egmont UK

Topics: Clever, Silly, Book, Silly Things

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Not That it Matters”, p.139, The Floating Press

Topics: Desire, Chess, Common

And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.99, Egmont UK

Topics: Share, Exciting, Flood

Christopher Robin ... just said it had an "x."' 'It isn't their necks I mind,' said Piglet earnestly. 'It's their teeth.

source: - A. A. Milne (1997). “Pooh's Bedtime Book”, Putnam Juvenile

Topics: Mind, Piglet, Robins

On Monday, when the sun is hot, I wonder to myself a lot. Now is it true, or is it not, that what is which and which is what?

source: - A A Milne (1998). “Cn Pooh 12-Copy Slipcase #06: Ams - Kanga & Baby Roo Comes to the Forest”, Dutton Books

Topics: Monday, Hot, Sun, Funny Monday

I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Not That it Matters”, p.71, The Floating Press

Topics: Diaries, Reason Why, Journal

Eeyore, the old grey donkey, stood by the side of the stream and looked at himself in the water. "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."

source: - Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) ch. 6

Topics: Water, Sides, Donkey

If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: 'Doesn't the sky look green today?

source: - When We Were Very Young "Spring Morning" l. 9 (1924)

Topics: Clouds, Air, Blue

Well,” said Owl, “the customary procedure in such cases is as follows.” “What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?” said Pooh. “For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.

source: - Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) ch. 4

Topics: Mean, Long, Owl, Long Words, Winnie The Pooh Inspirational

What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.

source: - A. A. Milne (2017). “It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer”, p.100, Pan Macmillan

Topics: Writing, Oxford, Cambridge

It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.

source: - 'The House at Pooh Corner' (1928) ch. 3

Topics: Friendship, Want, Relation, Winnie The Pooh Book, Winnie The Pooh Friend

Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?” "Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens.

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.87, Egmont UK

Topics: Rabbits, Said, Happens

Owl,' said Rabbit shortly, 'you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is easy thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it.

Topics: Mean, Thinking, Owl, Fluff

And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

Topics: Wish, Robins, World, Winni The Pooh

No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.

source: - A.A. Milne (2013). “The House at Pooh Corner”

Topics: Mistake, Thinking, People, Fluff

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

Topics: Courage, Animal, Bravery, Winni The Pooh, Pooh And Piglet

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

Topics: Want, Praise, Sensible

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.

Topics: Mean, Names, Forever

There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in.

source: - A. A. Milne (2011). “Now We Are Six”, p.45, Egmont UK

Topics: Time, Grandfather, Sailor

"I just like to know," said Pooh humbly.

source: - A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.33, Egmont UK

Topics: Knowledge, Said, Knows

I suppose that by this time they had finished their dressing. Roger Scurvilegs tells us nothing on such important matters; no doubt from modesty. "Next morning they rose," he says, and disappoints us of a picture of Udo brushing his hair.

source: - A. A. Milne (2013). “Once On A Time”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Morning, Hair, Rose

Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups?

Topics: Silly, Long, Bird, Hiccups

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.

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.11, Egmont UK

Topics: Noise, Bees, Reason, Winni The Pooh, Bees And Honey

I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.

source: - A. A. Milne (2003). “A Smackerel of Pooh: Ten Favorite Stories and Poems”, Dutton Juvenile

Topics: Digging A Hole, Rivers, Giving, Oak Tree, Rabbit Holes

The spring has sprung, the grass is rizz. I wonder where them birdies is?

Topics: Spring, Wonder, Grass, Sprung

On Wednesday, when the sky is blue, and I have nothing else to do, I sometimes wonder if it's true That who is what and what is who." - Winnie-the-Pooh

Topics: Blue, Sky, Sometimes

Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.

Topics: Mind, Matter

One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows.

source: - Introduction to the Heritage Press edition of "The Wind in the Willows",

Topics: Wind, Doe, Arguing, Wind In The Willows

That's right. You'll like Owl. He flew past a day or two ago and noticed me. He didn't actually say anything, mind you, but he knew it was me. Very friendly of him. Encouraging." Pooh and Piglet shuffled about a little and said, "Well, good-bye, Eeyore" as lingeringly as they could, but they had a long way to go, and wanted to be getting on. "Good-bye," said Eeyore. "Mind you don't get blown away, little Piglet. You'd be missed. People would say `Where's little Piglet been blown to?' -- really wanting to know. Well, good-bye. And thank you for happening to pass me.

source: - Milne, George, Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), Shepard, Ernest H. (1977). “The World of Pooh : the Complete Winnie-The-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner”, McClelland and Stewart, 1989

Topics: Past, Two, Bye, Pooh And Piglet

The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.38, Egmont UK

Topics: Depression, Thinking, Feet

I might have known,” said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said ‘Bother!’. The Social Round. Always something going on.

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.117, Egmont UK

Topics: Yesterday, Complaining, Might, Winnie The Pooh Friend

Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.

source: - A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.81, Egmont UK

Topics: Rivers, Long, Feelings

The other day I met a man who didn't know where Tripoli was. Tripoli happened to come into the conversation, and he was evidently at a loss. "Let's see," he said. "Tripoli is just down by the - er - you know. What's the name of that place?" "That's right," I answered, "just opposite, Thingumabob. I could show you in a minute on a map. It's near - what do they call it?" At this moment the train stopped, and I got out and went straight home to look at my atlas.

Topics: Home, Loss, Men

He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.

source: - A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.69, Egmont UK

Topics: Animal, Violet, Bunch

When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

Topics: Friendship, Trying, Doorways, Winnie The Pooh Friend, Pooh Bear Friend

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

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.37, Egmont UK

Topics: Brain, Bears, Foolish, Deluded

I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.

source: - A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.72, Egmont UK

Topics: Life, Littles, Bread

There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said "Nobody.

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.24, Egmont UK

Topics: Nihilism, Said

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.

source: - A A Milne (1998). “Cn Pooh 12-Copy Slipcase #09: Ams - A House Is Built at Pooh Corner”, Dutton Books

Topics: Piglet, Absence

WHERE did you say it was?' asked Pooh. Just here,' said Eeyore. Made of sticks?' Yes' Oh!' said Piglet. What?' said Eeyore. I just said "Oh!"' said Piglet nervously. And so as to seem quite at ease he hummed Tiddely-pom once or twice in a what-shall-we-do-now kind of way.

Topics: Piglet, Ease, Way

Once upon a time there were three little foxes Who didn't wear stockings, and they didn't wear sockses, But they all had handkerchiefs to blow their noses, And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes.

source: - A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.48, Egmont UK

Topics: Blow, Once Upon A Time, Foxes, Stockings, Handkerchiefs

So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was in the open again ... and then his ears ... and then his front paws ... and then his shoulders ... and then-'Oh, help!' said Pooh, 'I'd better go back,' 'Oh bother!' said Pooh, 'I shall have to go on.' 'I can't do either!' said Pooh, 'Oh help and bother!

Topics: Noses, Ears, Goes On

James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.

source: - A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.19, Egmont UK

Topics: Danger, Snail, Heard

You gave me Christopher Robin, and then You breathed new life in Pooh. Whatever of each has left my pen Goes homing back to you. My book is ready, and comes to greet The mother it longs to see -- It would be my present to you, my sweet, If it weren't your gift to me.

source: - A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.3, Egmont UK

Topics: Mother, Sweet, Book

The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh: "I suppose all these people know better than I. It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).

source: - A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.80, Egmont UK

Topics: Silly, Blue, Views

Sing Ho for the Life of a Bear

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.86, Egmont UK

Topics: Bears

A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Not That it Matters”, p.120, The Floating Press

Topics: Mistake, Men, Smoking

And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh. Eeyore shook his head from side to side. "Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time." "Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I'm sorry about that. Let's have a look at you.

source: - A. A. Milne (1992). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, Puffin

Topics: Sorry, Long, Looks

But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.

Topics: Clever, Thinking, Forever

If people ask me, I always tell them: "Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say." If people ask me, I always answer, "Quite well, thank you, how are you today?" I always answer, I always tell them, If they ask me Politely... BUT SOMETIMES I wish That they wouldn't

source: - A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.51, Egmont UK

Topics: People, Wish, Answers

Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.

Topics: Silly, Two, Perfect, Pooh And Piglet, Pooh Piglet

Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; He thinks I'm another sort of funny thing, But he doesn't know I'm fishing - He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what I'm doing - Fishing.

source: - A. A. Milne (2011). “Now We Are Six”, p.68, Egmont UK

Topics: Thinking, Lakes, Sea

If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.

Topics: Trying, Bumps, Way

Gone out. Backson. Busy backson.

Topics: Gone, Busy

Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.

source: - 1926 Pooh, stuck in the entrance to Rabbit's house after eating too much honey. Winnie-the-Pooh, ch.2.

Topics: Book, Comfort, Bears, Sustaining, Winnie The Pooh Book

Did I miss?" you asked. "You didn't exactly miss," said Pooh, "But you missed the balloon." "I'm so sorry," you said, and you fired again, and this time you hit the balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground.

source: - A. A. Milne (1997). “Pooh's Bedtime Book”, Putnam Juvenile

Topics: Sorry, Air, Missing, I'm So Sorry

And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "which it is," he added. "so there you are.

source: - A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.41, Egmont UK

Topics: Names, Owl, Bears

In a very little time they got to the corner of the field by the side of the pine wood where Eeyore's house wasn't any longer. 'There!' said Eeyore. 'Not a stick of it left! Of course, I've still got all this snow to do what I like with. One mustn't complain.

source: - A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.17, Egmont UK

Topics: Snow, House, Complaining

That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself." "I am," said Pooh.

source: - A. A. Milne (1993). “Eeyore has a birthday”, Dutton Childrens Books

Topics: Nuts, Gathering, May