If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. MILNEBe sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.
More A. A. Milne Quotes
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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
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The hardest part is what to leave behind, It’s time to let go!
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It is hard to be brave, when you’re only a very small animal.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.
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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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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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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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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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It’s always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don’t.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.
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If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
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It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.
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How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
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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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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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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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They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.
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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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Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.
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How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!
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So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
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