Alan Alexander Milne, better known as A. A. Milne, was a poet and author from England He was well-known for his role in the creation for the fictional Winnie the Pooh character. Winnie the Pooh. Milne studied by The University of Cambridge and initially was a playwright, however , it was as the author of Winnie the Pooh in 1926 that he gained fame.
The book was followed with The House at Pooh Corner one year later. Apart from that it was an incredibly prolific writer, who wrote poetry and children's short stories, collections newspapers, plays, and newspaper columns and was also an editor for the renowned magazine Punch. He also served in the British Army during both World Wars and that makes his reputation as an iconic British famous figure even more enduring.
The rights to Winnie the Pooh were later transferred to the Walt Disney company, which created cartoons, films and merchandise featuring the character. As far as the popularity of the character is in the realm of Winnie-the Pooh, it is believed to be second most loved cartoon character behind Mickey Mouse. Milne was without doubt some of the more well-known characters ever created and it was a complete contrast to other outstanding works he produced throughout his life. Here are a few most famous quotes by the man himself.
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.A. A. Milne
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.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
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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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You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
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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.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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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.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
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Tiggers don't like honey.
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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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.
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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.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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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.
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Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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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.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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