A. A. Milne Quotes

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Owl,' said Rabbit shortly, 'you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is easy thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it.

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Eeyore, the old grey donkey, stood by the side of the stream and looked at himself in the water. "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."

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"Tracks," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of excitement. "Oh, Pooh! Do you think it's a — a — a Woozle?" "It may be," said Pooh. "sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't. You can never tell with paw-marks."

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On Wednesday, when the sky is blue, and I have nothing else to do, I sometimes wonder if it's true That who is what and what is who." - Winnie-the-Pooh

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His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.

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One day when Pooh was thinking, he thought he would go and see Eeyore, because he hadn't seen him since yesterday.

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If people ask me, I always tell them: "Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say." If people ask me, I always answer, "Quite well, thank you, how are you today?" I always answer, I always tell them, If they ask me Politely... BUT SOMETIMES I wish That they wouldn't

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"It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal."

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Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares!
Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.

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Statistics is not the easiest subject to teach, and there are those to whom anything savoring of mathematics is regarded as forever anathema.

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"I shouldn't be surprised if it hailed a good deal tomorrow", Eeyore was saying. "Blizzards and what-not. Being fine today doesn't mean anything. It has no sig - what's that word? Well, it has none of that. It's just a small piece of wheather."

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I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.

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"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".

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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.

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"I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it on the way."

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There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in.

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And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh. Eeyore shook his head from side to side. "Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time." "Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I'm sorry about that. Let's have a look at you.

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If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

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But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

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It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.

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King John was not a good man—
He had his little ways.
And sometimes no one spoke to him
For days and days and days.

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If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!

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They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.

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Wherever I am, there's always Pooh, There's always Pooh and Me. Whatever I do, he wants to do, "Where are you going today?" says Pooh: "Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too. Let's go together," says Pooh, says he. "Let's go together," says Pooh.

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I have a house where I go,
When there's too many people,
I have a house where I go
Where no one can be;
I have a house where I go,
Where nobody ever says "no"
Where no one says anything - so
There is no one but me.

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