Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the Forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying to Pooh, 'Don't listen to Rabbit, listen to me.' So he got in a comfortable position for not listening to Rabbit.
A. A. Milne
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Sound
Seemed
Pooh
Summer
Rabbit
Comfortable
Rabbits
Listening
Forest
Listen
Afternoon
Position
Forests
Saying
Gentle
Full
Sounds
Drowsy
More quotes by A. A. Milne
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.
A. A. Milne
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.
A. A. Milne
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.
A. A. Milne
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.
A. A. Milne
Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.
A. A. Milne
Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.
A. A. Milne
And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.
A. A. Milne
He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.
A. A. Milne
When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.
A. A. Milne
But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.
A. A. Milne
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.
A. A. Milne
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.
A. A. Milne
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
A. A. Milne
How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!
A. A. Milne
Gone out. Backson. Busy backson.
A. A. Milne
It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
A. A. Milne
Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.
A. A. Milne
Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
A. A. Milne
If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.
A. A. Milne
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.
A. A. Milne
