Top 200 A. A. Milne Quotes (2024 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. “I did know once, only I’ve sort of forgotten.”

— A. A. Milne

103. “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

104. “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

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

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

— A. A. Milne

108. “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

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

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

113. “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

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

— A. A. Milne

115. “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

116. “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

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

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

122. “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

123. “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

124. “TTFN Ta Ta For Now!”

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

127. “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

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

— A. A. Milne

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

— A. A. Milne

130. “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

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

— A. A. Milne

132. “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

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. “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

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

— A. A. Milne

136. “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

137. “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

138. “And that, said John, is that.”

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

— 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. “It looks like a bothering sort of day.”

— A. A. Milne

150. “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