A. A. Milne Quotes

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."

"What I like doing best is Nothing."

"How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time.

"Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it.

It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."

"Oh!" said Pooh.

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

"Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have."

"[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business."

(The Record Lie)

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

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

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

Think, think, think.

Think it over, think it under.

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.