In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves. R. A. Butler Moment • Pack • Politics • Rest • Running • Wolves • You
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. Alan Alexander Milne Almost • Anyone • Author • Being • Business • Fame • Money • State
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 Doing • Every • Immortality • Live • Name • Us Hopes • World
No sensible author wants anything but praise. Alan Alexander Milne Anything • Praise • Sensible • Sensible Author • Wants
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. Alan Alexander Milne Better • Instead • Say • Watch • Will • You
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 Bores • Classes • Divided • Need • Own • Particular • Subject • Two • Who
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. Alan Alexander Milne Deserve • Effort • Liar • May • Name • One • Well
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. Alan Alexander Milne Advantages • Being • Constantly • Exciting • Exciting Discoveries • Making • One
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. Alan Alexander Milne Agnosticism • Atheism • Book • Churches • Cinema • Cinema Motorbicycle • Counterattractions • Disbelief • Golf • More • Old • Responsible • Testament • Will • You
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. Alan Alexander Milne Get • Good • Letters • Places • Wobbly • Wrong
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. Alan Alexander Milne Forget • Me • Never Forget • Thought • 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 Firstrate Mind • Happy • Majority • Mind • Minority • Only • Secondrate Mind • Thinking • Thirdrate
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. Alan Alexander Milne Bad • Because • Best • Game • Golf • Popular • Simply • World
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first. Alan Alexander Milne Book • Children • First • I Am • Like • One • Sure • Unless • Will
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there. Alan Alexander Milne Longer • Man • Mankind • Mankind Renounces • Own • Something • Then • War
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 Always • Books • Children • Escape • Once • Punch • Up • Writing
Some people care too much. I think it's called love. Alan Alexander Milne Care • Love • People • Think • Too • Too Much
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. Alan Alexander Milne Alice • Book • Children • Island • Masterpieces • Treasure • Willows • Wind • Wonderland
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 Doing • Listening • Nothing • Thing • Value • You
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence. Alan Alexander Milne He • Money • More • Permanence • Something • Work • Writer
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 Anywhere • Clever • Conjurer • Entertainment • Envy • Gift • Laughter • Limited • Powers • Setting • Us • View • Welcome
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? Alan Alexander Milne Again • Forget • Start • Stop • Think • You
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. Alan Alexander Milne Mixed • Organizing • Something • Up • Work • You
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. Alan Alexander Milne Education • Just • Sticks • Three • Uneducated
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 Day • Hundred • Live • Minus • One • Valentine's Day • Want • You
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. Alan Alexander Milne Decent • Fellow • Likes • Must • Potatoes • Pretty • Really • Say • Sort
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?' Alan Alexander Milne Easy • Fun • Long • Long Difficult • Lunch • Rather • Short • Someone • Words
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. Alan Alexander Milne Brainy • Corner • Forest • Others • Sometimes • Waiting • You
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. Alan Alexander Milne Flowers • Gardening • Know • Once • Weeds • You
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Alan Alexander Milne Believe • Braver • Intelligence • Me • Remember • Smarter • Stronger • Think • You
R. A. Butler
Alan Alexander Milne
