A. A. Milne Quotes

A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne
English Author
Born: Jan 18, 1882
Died: Jan 31, 1956
Book Children Forget He Will You
Related authors: H. G. Wells J. K. Rowling John Galsworthy Lewis Carroll Mary Shelley Samuel Johnson Simon Sinek Terry Pratchett
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. A. A. Milne
Day You Valentines Day Live Hundred One Day Minus Never Without Want
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? A. A. Milne
You Think Forget Did Stop Again Ever Start
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. A. A. Milne
Happy Mind Minority Thinking Second-Rate Only Majority First-Rate
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
You Waiting Sometimes Brainy Corner Others Stay Come Go Forest Them Your
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. A. A. Milne
Constantly Exciting Advantages Making Discoveries Being Disorderly
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?' A. A. Milne
Words Long Difficult Lunch Easy About Someone Rather More Like Talk Short Use Who Fun
Some people care too much. I think it's called love. A. A. Milne
Love People Care Too Much Some People Think Too Some Much
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. A. A. Milne
Work You Before Something Mixed Up Organizing
Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up. A. A. Milne
Book Wind Alice Pleasure More Read Masterpieces Island How How Much Wonderland Children Which Much Grown-Up Treasure
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course. A. A. Milne
You Book Cinema Old Will Churches Responsible Atheism More Written Disbelief Call Course Testament Than Any Golf Golf Course Old Testament Agnosticism Ever
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. A. A. Milne
Me You Thought Would Never Never Forget Because Leave Forget
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. A. A. Milne
Liar Name Well Make Effort May Deserve
Tiggers don't like honey. A. A. Milne
Honey Like
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering. A. A. Milne
You Listening Value Nothing Bothering Along Underestimate Doing Hear Going Just Thing
A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain. A. A. Milne
Entertainment Welcome Natural Gift Envy Laughter Clever Setting Those Tribute Must Some Powers Greater Limited Arranging Beds Lot Which Anywhere Us Much View Whose Applause
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
Own Those Bores Classes Divided Particular Subject Who Two Need
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence. A. A. Milne
Work Money Something More Writer He Permanence His Than Wants
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. A. A. Milne
You Better Will Say Instead Advised Watch
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. A. A. Milne
Good Spelling Wrong Wobbly Get Places Letters
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. A. A. Milne
Best Game World Bad Simply Because Golf Which Popular
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first. A. A. Milne
Book Will First Unless Write No-One He Like Himself Sure Am Children Which
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. A. A. Milne
Business Money State Collect Almost Fame Author Being Anyone
I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next. A. A. Milne
World Will Whatever Live Every Secretly Hopes Immortality He Name Suppose Him Himself Leave Doing Forever May Behind Which Mean Us Next
No sensible author wants anything but praise. A. A. Milne
Praise Author Anything Wants Sensible
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain. A. A. Milne
Writing Vain Gave Punch Books Once Had Always Up Escape Children Wanted Them

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