Top 200 A. A. Milne Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

2. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

— A. A. Milne

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3. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

— A. A. Milne

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4. “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”

— A. A. Milne

5. “Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits...”

— A. A. Milne

6. “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.”

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

8. “I’m not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”

— A. A. Milne

9. “The things that make me different are the things that make me.”

— A. A. Milne

10. “Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.”

— A. A. Milne

11. “Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.”

— A. A. Milne

12. “You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think – Christopher Robin.”

— A. A. Milne

13. “Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.”

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

15. “When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.”

— A. A. Milne

16. “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

17. “Sometimes,? said Pooh, ’the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”

— A. A. Milne

18. “Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?? ‘Supposing it didn’t,’ said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.”

— A. A. Milne

19. “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

20. “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”

— A. A. Milne

21. “Brains first and then Hard Work.”

— A. A. Milne

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22. “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing.”

— A. A. Milne

23. “Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.”

— A. A. Milne

24. “Gone out. Backson. Busy backson.”

— A. A. Milne

25. “In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.”

— A. A. Milne

26. “Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”

— A. A. Milne

27. “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

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

— A. A. Milne

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29. “Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”

— A. A. Milne

30. “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment.”

— A. A. Milne

31. “Promise you won’t forget me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.”

— A. A. Milne

32. “Tut, Tut, looks like rain.”

— A. A. Milne

33. “You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.”

— A. A. Milne

34. “Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?”

— A. A. Milne

35. “We’ll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.”

— A. A. Milne

36. “I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn’t anymore.”

— A. A. Milne

37. “A Fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly.”

— A. A. Milne

38. “You’re braver than you believe and stronger and smarter than you think.”

— A. A. Milne

39. “If ever there is a tomorrow when we’re not together there is something you must always remember...”

— A. A. Milne

40. “Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.”

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

42. “When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.”

— A. A. Milne

43. “One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”

— A. A. Milne

44. “Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”

— A. A. Milne

45. “Always wear a smile, because your smile is a reason for many others to smile!”

— A. A. Milne

46. “Think it over, think it under.”

— A. A. Milne

47. “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 suddenly know everything there is to be known.”

— A. A. Milne

48. “So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.”

— A. A. Milne

49. “I used to believe in forever, but forever’s too good to be true.”

— A. A. Milne

50. “A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.”

— A. A. Milne