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
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
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. Alan Alexander 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. Alan Alexander Milne
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject. Alan Alexander Milne
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. Alan Alexander Milne
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. Alan Alexander Milne
I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next. Alan Alexander Milne
I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem. X. J. Kennedy
I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work. B. B King
We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich. Vladimir Putin
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. Elwyn Brooks White