Quotes from A. A. Milne

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

What I like doing best is Nothing.

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

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

Life is so much friendlier with two.

Sing Ho for the Life of a Bear

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

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.

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.

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.

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