A. A. Milne

“A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.”

“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.”

“Tiggers don't like honey.”

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'”

“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

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

“Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.”

“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”

“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”

“War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.”

“No sensible author wants anything but praise.”

“To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.”

“Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.”

“Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.”

“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

“A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.”

“Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”

“Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.”