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.
A. A. MILNEFood 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.
More A. A. Milne Quotes
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What ever fortune brings, don’t be afraid of doing things.
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Forever isn’t long at all, as long as I’m with you.
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If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
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Some have brains, and some haven’t, and there it is.
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Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
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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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What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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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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Whenever there comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.
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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
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How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.
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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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