Quotes from A.A. Milne

Don't forget that a tail is a tail; it isn't just a Little Bit Extra at the back.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Think it over, think it under.

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

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

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

I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.

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

To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.

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.

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

You never can tell with bees.

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

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

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

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