--- title: "A. A. Milne Quotes | QuotesBy.net" description: "A. A. Milne invites you into a playful world of childhood wonder, nature and gentle humor. Read all 49 quotes by A. A. Milne on QuotesBy.net." image: "https://quotesby.net/wp-content/themes/quotesby-editorial/assets/og-default.png" --- ## A. A. Milne quotes 1. > They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - Christopher Robin went down with Alice. They've great big parties inside the grounds. 'I wouldn't be king for a hundred pounds', Says Alice. [Permalink to quote \#1](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/1/ "Permalink to quote 1") 2. > James James Morrison Morrisson Weatherby George Dupree Took great care of his mother Though he was only three. James James said to his mother Mother he said, said he: You mustn't go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me. James James Morrison's Mother Put on a golden gown. James James Morrison's Mother Went to the end of the town James James Morrison's Mother Said to herself, said she: I can go right down to the end of the town and be back in time for tea! [Permalink to quote \#2](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/2/ "Permalink to quote 2") 3. > 'And how are you?', said Winnie-the-Pooh. (...) 'Not very how', he said. 'I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time.' [Permalink to quote \#3](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/3/ "Permalink to quote 3") 4. > Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie, A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly. Ask me a riddle and I reply, Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie. [Permalink to quote \#4](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/4/ "Permalink to quote 4") 5. > 'Good morning, Pooh Bear', said Eeyore gloomily. 'If it is a good morning', he said. 'Which I doubt', said he. [Permalink to quote \#5](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/5/ "Permalink to quote 5") 6. > Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. [Permalink to quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/6/ "Permalink to quote 6") 7. > How sweet to be a cloud Floating in the blue [Permalink to quote \#7](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/7/ "Permalink to quote 7") 8. > 'My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.' [Permalink to quote \#8](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/8/ "Permalink to quote 8") 9. > 'Hello Rabbit, is that you?' 'Let's pretend it isn't', said Rabbit, 'and see what happens.' [Permalink to quote \#9](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/9/ "Permalink to quote 9") 10. > Isn't it funny How a bear likes honey? Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! I wonder why he does? [Permalink to quote \#10](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/10/ "Permalink to quote 10") 11. > 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. [Permalink to quote \#11](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/11/ "Permalink to quote 11") 12. > We can't all and some of us don't. That's all there is to it. -Eeyore [Permalink to quote \#12](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/12/ "Permalink to quote 12") 13. > The End When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever, So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever. [Permalink to quote \#13](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/13/ "Permalink to quote 13") 14. > Alexander Beetle I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name, And I called him Alexander and he answered just the same. I put him in a matchbox, and I kept him all the day... And Nanny let my beetle out Yes, Nanny let my beetle out She went and let my beetle out- And beetle ran away. She said she didn't mean it, and I never said she did, She said she wanted matches, and she just took off the lid She said that she was sorry, but it's difficult to catch An excited sort of beetle you've mistaken for a match. She said that she was sorry, and I really mustn't mind As there's lots and lots of beetles which she's certain we could find If we looked about the garden for the holes where beetles hid- And we'd get another matchbox, and write BEETLE on the lid. We went to all the places which a beetle might be near, And we made the sort of noises which a beetle likes to hear, And I saw a kind of something, and I gave a sort of shout: 'A beetle-house and Alexander Beetle coming out!' It was Alexander Beetle I'm as certain as can be And he had a sort of look as if he thought it might be ME, And he had a kind of look as if he thought he ought to say: 'I'm very, very sorry that I tried to run away.' And Nanny's very sorry too, for you know what she did, And she's writing ALEXANDER very blackly on the lid, So Nan and me are friends, because it's difficult to catch An excited Alexander you've mistaken for a match. [Permalink to quote \#14](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/14/ "Permalink to quote 14") 15. > 'I'm not going to do nothing anymore.' 'Never again?' 'Well, not so much. They don't let you.' [Permalink to quote \#15](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/15/ "Permalink to quote 15") 16. > 'I shouldn't be surprised if it hailed a good deal tomorrow', Eeyore was saying. 'Blizzards and what-not. Being fine today doesn't mean anything. It has no sig - what's that word? Well, it has none of that. It's just a small piece of wheather.' [Permalink to quote \#16](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/16/ "Permalink to quote 16") 17. > If I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will grow up into a beehive. [Permalink to quote \#17](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/17/ "Permalink to quote 17") 18. > So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing. [Permalink to quote \#18](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/18/ "Permalink to quote 18") 19. > 'That's what Jagulars always do', said Pooh, much interested. 'They call 'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they drop on you.' [Permalink to quote \#19](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/19/ "Permalink to quote 19") 20. > 'They wanted to come in after the pounds', explained Pooh, 'so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.' [Permalink to quote \#20](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/20/ "Permalink to quote 20") 21. > 'A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.' [Permalink to quote \#21](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/21/ "Permalink to quote 21") 22. > 'What I like doing best is nothing. It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.' [Permalink to quote \#22](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/22/ "Permalink to quote 22") 23. > '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.' [Permalink to quote \#23](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/23/ "Permalink to quote 23") 24. > 'One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.' [Permalink to quote \#24](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/24/ "Permalink to quote 24") 25. > '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.' [Permalink to quote \#25](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/25/ "Permalink to quote 25") 26. > 'When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.' [Permalink to quote \#26](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/26/ "Permalink to quote 26") 27. > '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.' [Permalink to quote \#27](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/27/ "Permalink to quote 27") ## Also attributed 1. > 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. 2. > If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. 3. > Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard. 4. > This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it. 5. > Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin. 6. > For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds. 7. > You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. 8. > It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all. 9. > When I was young, we always had mornings like this. 10. > 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. 11. > What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh. 12. > But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever. 13. > 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 counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course. 14. > Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts. 15. > 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. 16. > Hallo, Eeyore." "Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily. Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house. 17. > Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. 18. > "I just like to know," said Pooh humbly. 19. > Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. 20. > 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. 21. > If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble. 22. > 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. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "CollectionPage", "name": "A. A. 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