A. A. Milne Quotes

"Nearly eleven o'clock," said Pooh happily. "You're just in time for a little smackerel of something."

Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.

"It's a little Anxious," he said to himself, "to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water."

To her-
Hand in hand we come
Christopher Robin and I
To lay this book in your lap.
Say you're surprised?
Say you like it?
Say it's just what you wanted?
Because it's yours-
because we love you.

To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.

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

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

Later on, when they had all said “Good-bye” and “Thank-you” to Christopher Robin, Pooh and Piglet walked home thoughtfully together in the golden evening, and for a long time they were silent.
“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what's the first thing you say to yourself?”
“What's for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”
“I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting to-day?” said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It's the same thing,” he said.

Think it over, think it under.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

"She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
"Winter is dead.

Kanga said to Roo, "Drink up your milk first, dear, and talk afterwards." So Roo, who was drinking his milk, tried to say that he could do both at once . . . and had to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwards.

Owl took Christopher Robin's notice from Rabbit and looked at it nervously. He could spell his own name WOL, and he could spell Tuesday so that you knew it wasn't Wednesday, and he could read quite comfortably when you weren't looking over his shoulder and saying "Well?" all the time, and he could—