Quote

Owl,' said Rabbit shortly, 'you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is easy thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it.

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
Must
Rabbits
Mean
Forest
Thinking
Brains
Forests
Brain
Fluff
Easy
Owl
Others
Shortly
Done
Rabbit

More quotes by A. A. Milne

Image
I just wanted to be sure of you.
A. A. Milne
Image
Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string He thinks I'm another sort of funny thing, But he doesn't know I'm fishing - He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what I'm doing - Fishing.
A. A. Milne
Image
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
A. A. Milne
Image
But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
A. A. Milne
Image
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.
A. A. Milne
Image
A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
A. A. Milne
Image
Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.
A. A. Milne
Image
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
A. A. Milne
Image
You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.
A. A. Milne
Image
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.
A. A. Milne
Image
Dig a little deeper. Think of something that we've never thought of before.
A. A. Milne
Image
A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.
A. A. Milne
Image
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
Image
On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.
A. A. Milne
Image
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said Mate! in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.
A. A. Milne
Image
I might have known,” said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said ‘Bother!’. The Social Round. Always something going on.
A. A. Milne
Image
He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.
A. A. Milne
Image
I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.
A. A. Milne
Image
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
Image
When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.
A. A. Milne