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Quotes About Understanding

You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.
~ A.A. Miline
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
~ A.A. Milne
Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.
~ A.A. Milne
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
~ A.A. Milne
I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.
~ A.A. Milne
To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.
~ A.A. Milne
Lots of people talk to animals...Not very many listen though...that's the problem.
~ A.A. Milne
For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.
~ A.A. Milne
And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh. Eeyore shook his head from side to side. "Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time." "Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I'm sorry about that. Let's have a look at you.
~ A.A. Milne
His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.
~ A.A. Milne
What do you say, Pooh?" Pooh opened his eyes with a jerk and said, "Extremely." "Extremely what?" asked Rabbit. "What you were saying," said Pooh. "Undoubtably.
~ A.A. Milne
He respects owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right.
~ A.A. Milne
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
Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.
~ A.A. Milne
Well," said Owl, "the customary procedure in such cases is as follows." "What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?" said Pooh. "For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.
~ A.A. Milne
Owl,' said Rabbit shortly, 'you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is easy thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it.
~ A.A. Milne
But it's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.
~ A.A. Milne
Knorretje zei: "Als je begrijpt wat ik bedoel, Poeh" en Poeh zei: "Zo denk ik er ook over, Knor" en Knorretje zei: "Maar aan de andere kant, moet je wel bedenken" en Poeh zei: "Zo is het Knor, daar had ik even niet aan gedacht.
~ A.A. Milne
For some time now Pooh had been saying "Yes" and "No" in turn, with his eyes shut, to all that Owl was saying, and having said, "Yes, yes," last time, he said "No, not at all," now, without really knowing what Owl was talking about.
~ A.A. Milne
Thank you, Christopher Robin. You're the only one who seems to understand about tails. They don't think — that's what's the matter with some of these others. They've no imagination. A tail isn't a tail to them , it's just a Little Bit Extra at the back.
~ A.A. Milne
Are you prepared to have quite obvious things explained to you, to ask futile questions, to give me chances of scoring off you, to make brilliant discoveries of your own two or three days after I have made them myself all that kind of thing?
~ A.A. Milne
Do go and see, Owl. Because Pooh hasn't got very much brain, and he might do something silly, and I do love him so, Owl. Do you see, Owl?
~ A.A. Milne
Sedikit Pengertian, sedikit Perhatian untuk Orang Lain, akan membuat perubahan besar.
~ A.A. Milne
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.
~ A.A. Milne