A. A. Milne Quotes - Page 6

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• On Monday, when the sun is hot, I wonder to myself a lot. Now is it true, or is it not, that what is which and which is what?

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  Monday, Hot, Sun

  A A Milne (1998). “Cn Pooh 12-Copy Slipcase #06: Ams - Kanga & Baby Roo Comes to the Forest”, Dutton Books

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• A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.

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  Tea, Forget

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• 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."

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  Water, Sides, Donkey

  Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) ch. 6

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• If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: 'Doesn't the sky look green today?

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  Clouds, Air, Blue

  When We Were Very Young "Spring Morning" l. 9 (1924)

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• How long does getting thin take?

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  Loss, Weight Loss, Long

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.27, Egmont UK

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• You never can tell with bees.

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  Bees, Night Time, Cute Winnie The Pooh

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.18, Egmont UK

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• But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer.

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  Sleep, Insomnia, Sheep

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• For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.

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  Dream, People, Fifty

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• What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.

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  Writing, Oxford, Cambridge

  A. A. Milne (2017). “It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer”, p.100, Pan Macmillan

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• 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. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

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  Thinking, Robins, Bumps

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.10, Egmont UK

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• Owl,' said Rabbit shortly, 'you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is easy thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it.

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  Mean, Thinking, Owl

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• 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.

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  Math, Two, Piglet

  A. A. Milne (1992). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, Puffin

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• Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?” "Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens.

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  Rabbits, Said, Happens

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.87, Egmont UK

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

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  Courage, Animal, Bravery

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• No sensible author wants anything but praise.

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  Want, Praise, Sensible

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• Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.

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  Islands, Robins, Ordinary

  1926 Winnie-the-Pooh, ch.9.

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• Wherever I am, there's always Pooh, There's always Pooh and Me. Whatever I do, he wants to do, "Where are you going today?" says Pooh: "Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too. Let's go together," says Pooh, says he. "Let's go together," says Pooh.

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  Together, Want, Today

  A. A. Milne (2011). “Now We Are Six”, p.42, Egmont UK

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• Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.

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  Naps, Two, Winnie The Pooh Life

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• "I just like to know," said Pooh humbly.

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  Knowledge, Said, Knows

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.33, Egmont UK

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• What I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it. It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." "Oh!" said Pooh.

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  Mean, Long, People

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• Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups?

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  Silly, Long, Bird

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• I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.

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  Rabbits, Apple Pie, Way

  A. A. Milne (2002). “Tigger Tales”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• I suppose that by this time they had finished their dressing. Roger Scurvilegs tells us nothing on such important matters; no doubt from modesty. "Next morning they rose," he says, and disappoints us of a picture of Udo brushing his hair.

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  Morning, Hair, Rose

  A. A. Milne (2013). “Once On A Time”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.

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  Bird, Owl, Brain

  'Winnie-the-Pooh' (1926) ch. 9

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• What I like doing best is Nothing.

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  Piglet, Winnie The Pooh Life, Winni The Pooh

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.133, Egmont UK

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