A. A. Milne Quotes - Page 7

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

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  Friendship, Want, Relation

  'The House at Pooh Corner' (1928) ch. 3

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• 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 couldn't because of the state he was in.

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  Time, Grandfather, Sailor

  A. A. Milne (2011). “Now We Are Six”, p.45, Egmont UK

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• I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.

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  Digging A Hole, Rivers, Giving

  A. A. Milne (2003). “A Smackerel of Pooh: Ten Favorite Stories and Poems”, Dutton Juvenile

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• And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.

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  Bees And Honey, Reason, Honey Bee

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.11, Egmont UK

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• I just wanted to be sure of you.

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  Love, Wanted, Children's Books

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.95, Egmont UK

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• Brains first and then Hard Work.

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  Work, Brain, Firsts

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.19, Egmont UK

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• The spring has sprung, the grass is rizz. I wonder where them birdies is?

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  Spring, Wonder, Grass

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• 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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  Mean, Names, Forever

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• Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.

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  Mind, Matter

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• On Wednesday, when the sky is blue, and I have nothing else to do, I sometimes wonder if it's true That who is what and what is who." - Winnie-the-Pooh

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  Blue, Sky, Sometimes

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• One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows.

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  Wind, Doe, Arguing

  Introduction to the Heritage Press edition of "The Wind in the Willows",

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• The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.

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  Depression, Thinking, Feet

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.38, Egmont UK

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• No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.

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  Mistake, Thinking, People

  A.A. Milne (2013). “The House at Pooh Corner”

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• That's right. You'll like Owl. He flew past a day or two ago and noticed me. He didn't actually say anything, mind you, but he knew it was me. Very friendly of him. Encouraging." Pooh and Piglet shuffled about a little and said, "Well, good-bye, Eeyore" as lingeringly as they could, but they had a long way to go, and wanted to be getting on. "Good-bye," said Eeyore. "Mind you don't get blown away, little Piglet. You'd be missed. People would say `Where's little Piglet been blown to?' -- really wanting to know. Well, good-bye. And thank you for happening to pass me.

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  Past, Two, Bye

  Milne, George, Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), Shepard, Ernest H. (1977). “The World of Pooh : the Complete Winnie-The-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner”, McClelland and Stewart, 1989

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• Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.

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  Home, Owl, Tea

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• There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

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  Travel, Talking, People

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.102, Egmont UK

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• I might have known,” said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said ‘Bother!’. The Social Round. Always something going on.

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  Yesterday, Complaining, Might

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.117, Egmont UK

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• Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.

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  Rivers, Long, Feelings

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.81, Egmont UK

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• The other day I met a man who didn't know where Tripoli was. Tripoli happened to come into the conversation, and he was evidently at a loss. "Let's see," he said. "Tripoli is just down by the - er - you know. What's the name of that place?" "That's right," I answered, "just opposite, Thingumabob. I could show you in a minute on a map. It's near - what do they call it?" At this moment the train stopped, and I got out and went straight home to look at my atlas.

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  Home, Loss, Men

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• When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.

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  Opposites, Long, Owl

  Milne, George, Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), Shepard, Ernest H. (1977). “The World of Pooh : the Complete Winnie-The-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner”, McClelland and Stewart, 1989

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• I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.

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  Brain, Bears, Foolish

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.37, Egmont UK

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• There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said "Nobody.

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  Nihilism, Said

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.24, Egmont UK

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• And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

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  Wish, Robins, World

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• The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.

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  Piglet, Absence

  A A Milne (1998). “Cn Pooh 12-Copy Slipcase #09: Ams - A House Is Built at Pooh Corner”, Dutton Books

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• WHERE did you say it was?' asked Pooh. Just here,' said Eeyore. Made of sticks?' Yes' Oh!' said Piglet. What?' said Eeyore. I just said "Oh!"' said Piglet nervously. And so as to seem quite at ease he hummed Tiddely-pom once or twice in a what-shall-we-do-now kind of way.

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  Piglet, Ease, Way

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