A. A. Milne Quotes - Page 8

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• Once upon a time there were three little foxes
  Who didn't wear stockings, and they didn't wear sockses,
  But they all had handkerchiefs to blow their noses,
  And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes.

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  Blow, Once Upon A Time, Foxes

  A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.48, Egmont UK

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• Tut, Tut, looks like rain

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  Rain, Looks

  A. A. Milne (2004). “Winnie the Pooh Stories CD Storybook”, p.48, Penton Overseas, Inc

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• It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

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  Tails, Cute Winnie The Pooh, Winni The Pooh

  "Fictional character: Eeyore". Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was in the open again ... and then his ears ... and then his front paws ... and then his shoulders ... and then-'Oh, help!' said Pooh, 'I'd better go back,' 'Oh bother!' said Pooh, 'I shall have to go on.' 'I can't do either!' said Pooh, 'Oh help and bother!

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  Noses, Ears, Goes On

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• James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.

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  Danger, Snail, Heard

  A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.19, Egmont UK

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• For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.

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  Writing, Editing, Long

  Winnie-the-Pooh ch. 4 (1926)

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• You gave me Christopher Robin, and then You breathed new life in Pooh. Whatever of each has left my pen Goes homing back to you. My book is ready, and comes to greet The mother it longs to see -- It would be my present to you, my sweet, If it weren't your gift to me.

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  Mother, Sweet, Book

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.3, Egmont UK

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• The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh: "I suppose all these people know better than I. It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).

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  Silly, Blue, Views

  A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.80, Egmont UK

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• A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.

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  Mistake, Men, Smoking

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Not That it Matters”, p.120, The Floating Press

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• Sing Ho for the Life of a Bear

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  Bears

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.86, Egmont UK

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• 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 as much kindness as Roo.

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  Kindness, Mean, Animal

  "The House at Pooh Corner". Book by A. A. Milne, 1928.

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• To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.

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  Book, Love You, Hands

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.3, Egmont UK

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• And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh. Eeyore shook his head from side to side. "Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time." "Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I'm sorry about that. Let's have a look at you.

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  Sorry, Long, Looks

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

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• But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.

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  Clever, Thinking, Forever

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• If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee.

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  Noise, Bees, Reason

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

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• If people ask me, I always tell them: "Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say." If people ask me, I always answer, "Quite well, thank you, how are you today?" I always answer, I always tell them, If they ask me Politely... BUT SOMETIMES I wish That they wouldn't

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  People, Wish, Answers

  A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.51, Egmont UK

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• Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.

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  Silly, Two, Perfect

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• I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.

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  Diaries, Reason Why, Journal

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Not That it Matters”, p.71, The Floating Press

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• Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; He thinks I'm another sort of funny thing, But he doesn't know I'm fishing - He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what I'm doing - Fishing.

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  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  A. A. Milne (2011). “Now We Are Six”, p.68, Egmont UK

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• If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.

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  Trying, Bumps, Way

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• When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

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  Rivers, Swim, Stones

  Joan Powers, A. A. Milne (1996). “Eeyore's Gloomy Little Instruction Book”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "which it is," he added. "so there you are.

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  Names, Owl, Bears

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.41, Egmont UK

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• Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.

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  Talking, Waiting, Owl

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.109, Egmont UK

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

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  Law, Evil, Doubt

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Not That it Matters”, p.101, The Floating Press

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• In a very little time they got to the corner of the field by the side of the pine wood where Eeyore's house wasn't any longer. 'There!' said Eeyore. 'Not a stick of it left! Of course, I've still got all this snow to do what I like with. One mustn't complain.

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  Snow, House, Complaining

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.17, Egmont UK

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