A.A. Milne


“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 (1882-1956)


“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”

—A. A. Milne (1882-1956)


“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”

—A. A. Milne (1882-1956)


“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”

—A. A. Milne (1882-1956)


“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

—A. A. Milne (1882-1956)


“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”

—A. A. Milne (1882-1956)


“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”

—A. A. Milne (1882-1956)


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

—A. A. Milne (1882-1956)


“Think it over, think it under.”

—A. A. Milne (1882-1956)


"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 (1882-1956)


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

—A. A. Milne (1882-1956)


"No one can tell me,

Nobody knows,

Where the wind comes from,

Where the wind goes."

—A. A. Milne (1882-1956)


"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

—A. A. Milne (1882-1956)


"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."

—A. A. Milne (1882-1956)


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

—A. A. Milne (1882-1956)


"Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more."

—A. A. Milne (1882-1956)


"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 (1882-1956)


"Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up."

—A. A. Milne (1882-1956)


"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."

—A. A. Milne (1882-1956)


"War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there."

—A. A. Milne (1882-1956)