Top 200 A. A. Milne Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.”

— A. A. Milne

102. “When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.”

— A. A. Milne

103. “I did know once, only I’ve sort of forgotten.”

— A. A. Milne

104. “They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.”

— A. A. Milne

105. “The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief – call it what you will – than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.”

— A. A. Milne

106. “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.”

— A. A. Milne

107. “It’s so much more friendly with two.”

— A. A. Milne

108. “And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.”

— A. A. Milne

109. “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.”

— A. A. Milne

110. “Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.”

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

112. “If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.”

— A. A. Milne

113. “To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.”

— A. A. Milne

114. “Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.”

— A. A. Milne

115. “The name’s Tigger! T-I-double-guh-ER!”

— A. A. Milne

116. “It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. Would you write ‘A Happy Birthday’ on it for me?”

— A. A. Milne

117. “Here I am in the dark alone, What is it going to be? I can think whatever I like to think, I can play whatever I like to play, I can laugh whatever I like to laugh, There’s nobody here but me.”

— A. A. Milne

118. “We can’t all, and some of us don’t.”

— A. A. Milne

119. “It’s not much of a tail, but I’m sort of attached to it.”

— A. A. Milne

120. “Walking with her man, Lost in a dream.”

— A. A. Milne

121. “One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows.”

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

123. “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.”

— A. A. Milne

124. “TTFN Ta Ta For Now!”

— A. A. Milne

125. “I just wanted to be sure of you.”

— A. A. Milne

126. “There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there.”

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

128. “Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.”

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

131. “It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the Forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying to Pooh, ‘Don’t listen to Rabbit, listen to me.’ So he got in a comfortable position for not listening to Rabbit.”

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

133. “Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.”

— A. A. Milne

134. “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.”

— A. A. Milne

135. “When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don’t stop and eat it along the way.”

— A. A. Milne

136. “This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.”

— A. A. Milne

137. “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.”

— A. A. Milne

138. “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.”

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

140. “And that, said John, is that.”

— A. A. Milne

141. “Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.”

— A. A. Milne

142. “His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.”

— A. A. Milne

143. “What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”

— A. A. Milne

144. “Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.”

— A. A. Milne

145. “I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name.”

— A. A. Milne

146. “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.”

— A. A. Milne

147. “If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn’t involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.”

— A. A. Milne

148. “At first as they stumped along the path which edged the Hundred Acre Wood, they didn’t say much to each other; but when they came to the stream, and had helped each other across the stepping stones, and were able to walk side by side again over the heather, they began to talk in a friendly way...”

— A. A. Milne

149. “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.”

— A. A. Milne

150. “He respects owl, because you can’t help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn’t spell it right.”

— A. A. Milne