A.A. Milne Quotes - Page 2

How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively.'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar,' Piglet replied.'You mean to die?' asked Pooh.'Yes and no,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on.
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By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.
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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
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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.
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Tut, Tut, looks like rain
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Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
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Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.
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But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.
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No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.
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I might have known,” said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said ‘Bother!’. The Social Round. Always something going on.
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Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.
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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
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Think, think, think.
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Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully."Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever.""And he has Brain.""Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."There was a long silence."I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything.
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Oh Tigger, where are your manners?""I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.
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It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily."So it is.""And freezing.""Is it?""Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.
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On Wednesday, when the sky is blue,and I have nothing else to do,I sometimes wonder if it's true That who is what and what is who." - Winnie-the-Pooh
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And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.
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People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.
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How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet"You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh
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Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
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