Alan Alexander Milne Quotes (39 Quotes)

If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.

People who don't Think probably don't have Brains rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.

Eeyore, the old grey donkey, stood by the side of the stream and looked at himself in the water. 'Pathetic,' he said. 'That's what it is. Pathetic.'

Isn't it funny How a bear likes honey Buzz Buzz Buzz I wonder why he does.

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

And nobody knows (Tiddely pom), How cold my toes (Tiddely pom), How cold my toes (Tiddely pom), Are growing.

It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you isquite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants asmuch kindness as Roo.

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 suddenlyknow everything there is to be known.

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.

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.

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like 'What about lunch'

We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it..

They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.

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

Time for a little something.

Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.

Come, come, come. Without a monster or two its not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - Christopher Robin went down with Alice.

It's so much more friendly with two.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

'Well,' said Pooh, 'what I like best' and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

'How long does getting thin take' Pooh asked anxiously.

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.

Brains first and then Hard Work.

Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldnt because of the state he was in.

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

Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way ... if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.

Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.

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

I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.