Alan Alexander Milne Quotes

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.

If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing.

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