Alan Alexander Milne Quotes

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.

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

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

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

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

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.

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

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.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

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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To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

You always have to think in a new modern way, and you always have to push yourself in fashion because it's a big treadmill. You can't really get off it. You just have to move a little faster.

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