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. A. A. Milne More Quotes by A. A. Milne More Quotes From A. A. Milne Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness. A. A. Milne bears comfort book I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten. A. A. Milne forgotten pooh-bear-friend winnie-the-pooh-book Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train. A. A. Milne train travel thinking 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 stones swim rivers 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. A. A. Milne running book people When I was young, we always had mornings like this. A. A. Milne young morning In a very little time they got to the corner of the field by the side of the pine wood where Eeyore's house wasn't any longer. 'There!' said Eeyore. 'Not a stick of it left! Of course, I've still got all this snow to do what I like with. One mustn't complain. A. A. Milne complaining house snow It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal. A. A. Milne bravery courage animal 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 reason noise bees So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was in the open again ... and then his ears ... and then his front paws ... and then his shoulders ... and then-'Oh, help!' said Pooh, 'I'd better go back,' 'Oh bother!' said Pooh, 'I shall have to go on.' 'I can't do either!' said Pooh, 'Oh help and bother! A. A. Milne goes-on ears noses Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. A. A. Milne cute-love happiness friendship I do like a little bit of butter to my bread. A. A. Milne bread littles life It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation. A. A. Milne sight tails justice Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. A. A. Milne games golf world Whereas men of an older school, like myself, smoke for the pleasure of smoking, men of this school smoke for the pleasure of pipe-owning-of selecting which of their many white-spotted pipes they will fill with their specially blended tobacco, of filling the one so chosen, of lighting it, of taking it from the mouth to gaze lovingly at the white spot and thus letting it go out, of lighting it again and letting it go out again, of polishing it up with their own special polisher and putting it to bed, and then the pleasure of beginning all over again with another white-spotted one. A. A. Milne white men school To seem natural rather than to be natural. A. A. Milne seems natural I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name A. A. Milne found names littles Once upon a time there were three little foxes A. A. Milne foxes once-upon-a-time blow Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two. A. A. Milne winnie-the-pooh-life naps two Sing Ho for the Life of a Bear A. A. Milne bears
