Quotes by "A.A. Milne"

But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

Tut, Tut, looks like rain

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.

Childhood is not the happiest time of one's life, but only to a child is pure happiness possible.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.