Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.
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
Doesn
Back
Find
Downstairs
Come
Bump
Trying
Bumps
Going
Involve
Way
Head
Possible
More quotes by A. A. Milne
They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.
A. A. Milne
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
So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
A. A. Milne
The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!
A. A. Milne
How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!
A. A. Milne
When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.
A. A. Milne
This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
A. A. Milne
Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.
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
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
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
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
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
A. A. Milne
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
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
A. A. Milne
What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.
A. A. Milne
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
A. A. Milne
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
Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.
A. A. Milne
That's what Tiggers do best!
A. A. Milne
