Alan Alexander Milne Quotes

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.

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.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

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.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

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

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.

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

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

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With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.

I exercise five days a week at home.

In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.

I'm gonna tell y'all what we tell the crowd every night when we play back in the States. We tell them to remember people sleeping in a sandstorm so that we can be free.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

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