Popular Motivational & Inspirational Quotes by A. a. milne
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
No sensible author wants anything but praise.
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
Tiggers don't like honey.
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.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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.
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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.
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
