A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly. A. A. Milne More Quotes by A. A. Milne More Quotes From A. A. Milne We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it. A. A. Milne winnie-the-pooh-friend mulberry depression It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious. A. A. Milne games winning men No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think. A. A. Milne mistake people thinking 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 A. A. Milne paws remember two 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 names forever mean The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there. A. A. Milne absence piglet If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: 'Doesn't the sky look green today? A. A. Milne air blue clouds Tiggers don't like honey. A. A. Milne tigger honey He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him. A. A. Milne bunch violet animal A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man. A. A. Milne smoking mistake men I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All. A. A. Milne foolish bears brain Some have brains, and some haven't, and there it is. A. A. Milne havens brain The other day I met a man who didn't know where Tripoli was. Tripoli happened to come into the conversation, and he was evidently at a loss. "Let's see," he said. "Tripoli is just down by the - er - you know. What's the name of that place?" "That's right," I answered, "just opposite, Thingumabob. I could show you in a minute on a map. It's near - what do they call it?" At this moment the train stopped, and I got out and went straight home to look at my atlas. A. A. Milne loss home men That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself." "I am," said Pooh. A. A. Milne gathering nuts may The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal. A. A. Milne writing fun children It looks like a bothering sort of day. A. A. Milne bother looks What I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it. It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." "Oh!" said Pooh. A. A. Milne long mean people And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "which it is," he added. "so there you are. A. A. Milne names bears owl Did I miss?" you asked. "You didn't exactly miss," said Pooh, "But you missed the balloon." "I'm so sorry," you said, and you fired again, and this time you hit the balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground. A. A. Milne missing sorry air Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this. A. A. Milne clever silly book
