A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
A. A. MILNERivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
More A. A. Milne Quotes
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Brains first and then Hard Work.
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When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don’t eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.
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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.
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Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.
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I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
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Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don’t stop and eat it along the way.
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His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.
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A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.
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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
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It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.
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Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.
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A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.
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Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die. Still you wait and will not try – A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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A Fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly.
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What ever fortune brings, don’t be afraid of doing things.
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A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
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Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.
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I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.
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I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn’t anymore.
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If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.
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