A. A. Milne Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.