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.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

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.

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

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

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

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

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

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.

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

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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.

The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '90s. They will not be led astray. Nobody should be having any doubts.

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