Some people care too much. I think it's called love. Alan Alexander Milne Care • Love • People • Think • Too • Too Much
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
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 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
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
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
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