Alan Alexander Milne Quotes 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?' Easy Fun Long Long Difficult Lunch Rather Short Someone Words
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
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. 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
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
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. 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
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. Alan Alexander Milne
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. Elwyn Brooks White
I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma. Phyllis Christine Cast
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad. Elwyn Brooks White