A. A. Milne Quotes


"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
- A. A. Milne
(Related: Promise)

"Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up."
- A. A. Milne
"Organizating is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up."
- A. A. Milne
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
- A. A. Milne
(Related: Being)

"Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave."
- A. A. Milne
(Related: Thought, Forget)

"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
(Related: First, Majority, Mind, Minority, Thinking)

"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
(Related: Day, Want)

"You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say."
- A. A. Milne
(Related: Will)

"My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places."
- A. A. Milne
(Related: Letters, Spelling, Wrong)

"Tiggers don't like honey."
- A. A. Milne
"To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks."
- A. A. Milne
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
- A. A. Milne
(Related: Flowers)

"Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being."
- A. A. Milne
(Related: Business, Money, Being, Fame, State)

"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
(Related: Waiting)

"Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?"
- A. A. Milne
(Related: Forget)

"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
"Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad."
- A. A. Milne
(Related: Golf, Popular, World)

"What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow."
- A. A. Milne
(Related: Pretty)