Quotes from A.A. Milne

My dear Watson," he said, "you aren't supposed to be as clever as this.

Being in the place of a mother to you, since your poor mother died, I say this, Audrey—when a gentleman goes to Australia, he has his reasons. And when he stays in Australia fifteen years, as Mr. Mark says, and as I know for myself for five years, he has his reasons. And a respectably brought-up girl doesn't ask what reasons.

it's ever so 'portant how you walk'.

Let us pray to remain in ignorance of the faults of those we like. Let us pray it as sincerely as we pray that they shall remain in ignorance of ours.

Nie wszyscy mogÄ… i któryÅ› z nas te? nie mo?e. I w tym caÅ'a rzecz.

Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself...

How do you spell love? You don't spell it, you feel it.

It's going to be a tedious business, but we will see it out.

Antony could never resist another person's bookshelves. As soon as he went into the room, he found himself wandering round it to see what books the owner read, or (more likely) did not read, but kept for the air which they lent to the house.

Well, you both went out with the blue balloon, and you took your gun with you, just in case, as you always did

Oh, Kanga," said Pooh, after Rabbit had winked at him twice, "I don't know if you are interested in Poetry at all?" "Hardly at all," said Kanga.

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

Okazuje siÄ™ czasami, ?e rzeczy, które zdawaÅ'y siÄ™ bardzo proste, gdy miaÅ'o siÄ™ je w gÅ'owie, stajÄ… siÄ™ caÅ'kiem inne, gdy wychodzÄ… z gÅ'owy na Å›wiat i inni na nie patrzÄ….

But it isn't Easy,' said Pooh to himself.... 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you . And all you can do is to go where they can find you. He waited hopefully... [...] 'So there it is,' said Pooh, when he had sung this to himself three times. 'It's come different from what I thought it would, but it's come.

John Patrick "Pat" McInally found fame in his native Usa as a punter and wide receiver for the National Football League's Cincinnati bengals from 1976 to 1985. a Harvard graduate, he remains the only footballer to have achieved a verified perfect score on the Wonderlic Test, the intelligence test given to prospective players by the NFL.

Du mußt nicht groß sein, um Großes zu vollbringen.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for the others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

We've come to wish you a Very Happy Thursday" said Pooh… "Why, what's going to happen on Thursday?" asked Rabbit, and when Pooh had explained and Rabbit, whose life Was made up of Important Things, said, "Oh, I thought you'd really come about something.

Is that all you've got left?" and Pooh said "Yes." Because it was.

You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Then Piglet saw what a Foolish Piglet he had been, and he was so ashamed of himself that he ran straight off home and went to bed with a headache.

Oh!" said Pooh. And then seeing that Owl ex- pected him to say something else, he said, "Will there be those little cake things with pink sugar icing? " Owl felt that it was rather beneath him to talk about little cake things with pink sugar icing, so he told Pooh exactly what Christopher Robin had said, and flew off to Eeyore

Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie, A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly. Ask me a riddle and I reply: "Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie." That

Piglet was so excited at the idea of being useful that he forgot to be frightened.