Quote

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

A. A. Milne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

A. A. Milne
Age: 74 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 18
Died: 1956
Died: January 31
Author
Essayist
Military Officer
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
London
England
Alan Alexander Milne
A.A. Milne
Things
Along
Retirement
Inactivity
Listening
Bother
Bothering
Hear
Appreciation
Nephew
Happiness
Stress
Inaction
Values
Hearing
Retired
Action
Valuable
Nothingness
Nothing
Activity
Retiring
Going
Value
Underestimate

More quotes by A. A. Milne

Image
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.
A. A. Milne
Image
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
Image
Christopher Robin ... just said it had an x.' 'It isn't their necks I mind,' said Piglet earnestly. 'It's their teeth.
A. A. Milne
Image
And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.
A. A. Milne
Image
That's what Tiggers do best!
A. A. Milne
Image
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.
A. A. Milne
Image
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
A. A. Milne
Image
If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
A. A. Milne
Image
It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
A. A. Milne
Image
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.
A. A. Milne
Image
Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
A. A. Milne
Image
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.
A. A. Milne
Image
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
A. A. Milne
Image
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
A. A. Milne
Image
Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.
A. A. Milne
Image
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.
A. A. Milne
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
A. A. Milne
Image
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.
A. A. Milne