A. A. Milne quotes

A. A. Milne

"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
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You Gardening Flowers Know
"Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up."
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Work You Something Up
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
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Being Exciting Making Advantages
"Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?"
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You Stop Think Start
"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'"
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Long Difficult Words Lunch
"To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks."
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Education Three Just Uneducated
"You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."
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Waiting You Brainy Sometimes
"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."
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Mind Thinking Happy Minority
"Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering."
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You Value Nothing Underestimate
"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."
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World Name Will Immortality
"If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name."
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Effort Liar Name Deserve
"Some people care too much. I think it's called love."
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Love People Care Think
"What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow."
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Must Say He Decent Pretty
"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."
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You Will Golf Cinema
"My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places."
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Good Wrong Letters Places
"Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave."
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Me You Never Never Forget
"No sensible author wants anything but praise."
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Praise Anything Sensible Wants
"You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say."
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You Better Will Say
"Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad."
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Best World Game Bad
"Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being."
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Business Money Fame Being
"I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first."
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I Am Children Will Like
"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."
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Wind Children More Pleasure
"Tiggers don't like honey."
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Like Honey
"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."
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Children Always Escape Writing
"War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there."
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Man War Something Own
"A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence."
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Work Money More Something
"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."
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Gift Welcome View Laughter
"Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject."
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Who Own Need Two
"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you."
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Friendship Relationship Romantic
"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you."
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Friendship Relationship Romantic
"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
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Love Inspirational Friendship
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
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Relationship Meaningful Goodbye
"In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing."
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Earning Quiet Sometimes
"If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever."
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Love Inspirational I Miss You
"Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day."
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Favorite Day Movie Love Today
"Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
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Relationship Sympathy Baby
"I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen."
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Children Adventure Piglet
"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing"
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Happiness Being Happy Retirement
"The things that make me different are the things that make me."
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Inspirational Life Graduation
"Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it.""
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Love Relationship Pregnancy
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
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Life Beauty Beautiful
"A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference."
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Inspirational Friendship Relationship
"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."
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Happiness Integrity Thinking
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
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Life Cute Science
"One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery."
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Discovery Joy Piglet
"I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh. "There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do."
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Tea Piglet Honey
"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."
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Love Friendship Birthday
"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day."
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Inspirational Life Patience
"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."
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