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.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

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

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

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

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.

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

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.

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

Quotes of the Hour

Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.

I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.

Alan Alexander Milne Quotes

More Related Quotes

Quotes of the Hour

Popular Topics