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

More quotes by A. A. Milne

Image
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A. A. Milne
Image
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
Image
Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.
A. A. Milne
Image
Bores can be divided into two classes those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
A. A. Milne
Image
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A. A. Milne
Image
I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
A. A. Milne
Image
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.
A. A. Milne
Image
It's snowing still, said Eeyore gloomily. So it is. And freezing. Is it? Yes, said Eeyore. However, he said, brightening up a little, we haven't had an earthquake lately.
A. A. Milne
Image
I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.
A. A. Milne
Image
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A. A. Milne
Image
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
A. A. Milne
Image
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.
A. A. Milne
Image
Friendship, said Christopher Robin, is a very comforting thing to have.
A. A. Milne
Image
Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
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 used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
A. A. Milne
Image
It's so much more friendly with two.
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
I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.
A. A. Milne
Image
When I was young, we always had mornings like this.
A. A. Milne