A. A. Milne Quotes

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 about it.

And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

"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 today?" said Piglet.

Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.

Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought.
Piglet was comforted by this.

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.

Isn't it funny
How a bear likes honey?
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
I wonder why he does?

It was just as if somebody inside him were saying, "Now then, Pooh, time for a little something."

"They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come".

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

"Yes," said Tigger, "they're very good flyers, Tiggers are. Strornry good flyers."

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

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

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—

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.

"Hello Rabbit, is that you?"
"Let's pretend it isn't", said Rabbit, "and see what happens."