Alan Alexander Milne Quotes Alan Alexander Milne You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. Brainy Corner Forest Others Sometimes Waiting You
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there. Alan Alexander Milne
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain. Alan Alexander Milne
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. Alan Alexander Milne
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering. Alan Alexander Milne
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. Alan Alexander Milne
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?' Alan Alexander Milne
I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now? Vladimir Putin
Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot. Zac Brown
How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it. W. Averell Harriman