Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
– A. A. Milne
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
– A. A. Milne
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
– A. A. Milne
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
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
– A. A. Milne
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
– A. A. Milne
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
– A. A. Milne
Organizating is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up.
– A. A. Milne
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
– A. A. Milne
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 counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
– A. A. Milne
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
– A. A. Milne
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
– A. A. Milne
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
– A. A. Milne
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
– 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
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
– A. A. Milne
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
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
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.