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A. A. Milne [1882-1956] English

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Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.

Brainy, Education, Gardening, Intelligence, Valentine's Day, War, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
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.	Valentine's Day	20
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.	Intelligence	101
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.	Work	102
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?		103
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.		104
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.		105
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.		106
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.	Education	107
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.	Gardening	109
Tiggers don't like honey.		110
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.	Brainy	111
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.		112
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.		113
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.		114
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.		115
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.		116
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.	War	117
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.		118
No sensible author wants anything but praise.		119
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.		120
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.		121
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.		122
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.		123
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.		124
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.		125
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.		126
A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.		201
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'		202
Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.		203
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.		204

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