Zitat des Tages von A. A. Milne:
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.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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.
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
Tiggers don't like honey.
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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.
