A. A. Milne Quotes

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  You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

  A. A. Milne

  Topics in Friendship, Love

  Tags in Believe, Stronger
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  Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.

  A. A. Milne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Animals

• Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

  A. A. Milne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tolerable, Amusement

• Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

  A. A. Milne

  Topics in Business, Money, Success

  Tags in Writing

• But what care I? It’s the game that calls me- Simply to be on the field of play; How can it matter what fate befalls me, With ten good fellows and one good day!

  A. A. Milne

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I could spend a happy morning Seeing Roo, I could spend a happy morning Being Pooh, For it doesn’t seem to matter, If I don’t get any fatter (And I don’t get any fatter), What I do.

  A. A. Milne

  Topics in Uncategorized

• But whatever his weight in pounds, shillings, and ounces, He always seems bigger because of the bounces.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• ‘I ought to say,’ explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, ‘that it isn’t just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it’s a Boat, and sometimes it’s more of an Accident. It all depends.’ ‘Depends on what?’ ‘On whether I’m on the top of it or underneath it.’

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• Would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness?

  A. A. Milne

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I have just been thinking, and I have come to a very important decision. These are the wrong sort of bees.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• The King said ‘Butter, eh?’ And bounced out of bed.

  A. A. Milne

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed, Droops on the little hands, little gold head; Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.

  A. A. Milne

  Topics in Uncategorized

• They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace-Christopher Robin went down with Alice. Alice is marrying one of the guard. ‘A soldier’s life is terribly hard,’ Says Alice.

  A. A. Milne

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized
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  It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like What about lunch?

  A. A. Milne

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Cute, Words
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  Piglet noticed that even though he had a very small heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

  A. A. Milne

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Heart, Gratitude

• You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

  A. A. Milne

  Topics in Friendship, Inspirational

  Tags in Sometimes
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  Always remember you are braver than you believe stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.

  A. A. Milne

  Topics in Friendship, Love

  Tags in Think, Smart, Brave, Remember

• If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

  A. A. Milne

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Live

• Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

  A. A. Milne

  Topics in Humor

A. A. Milne (49)

Birth:	18th January, 1882
Death:	31st January, 1956
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Playwright, Poet

About

Alan Alexander Milne was a British author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and later, after a debilitating illness, the Royal Corps of Signals.

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