A A Milne quotes

" 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 " # Cute Love

" One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. " # Organization # Books - Reading # Discovery

" Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. " # Planning

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

" Alexander Beetle I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name, And I called him Alexander and he answered just the same. I put him in a matchbox, and I kept him all the day... And Nanny let my beetle out Yes, Nanny let my beetle out She went and let my beetle out- And beetle ran away. She said she didn't mean it, and I never said she did, She said she wanted matches, and she just took off the lid She said that she was sorry, but it's difficult to catch An excited sort of beetle you've mistaken for a match. She said that she was sorry, and I really mustn't mind As there's lots and lots of beetles which she's certain we could find If we looked about the garden for the holes where beetles hid- And we'd get another matchbox, and write BEETLE on the lid. We went to all the places which a beetle might be near, And we made the sort of noises which a beetle likes to hear, And I saw a kind of something, and I gave a sort of shout: "A beetle-house and Alexander Beetle coming out!" It was Alexander Beetle I'm as certain as can be And he had a sort of look as if he thought it might be ME, And he had a kind of look as if he thought he ought to say: "I'm very, very sorry that I tried to run away." And Nanny's very sorry too, for you know what she did, And she's writing ALEXANDER very blackly on the lid, So Nan and me are friends, because it's difficult to catch An excited Alexander you've mistaken for a match. " # Feminism # Love # Friends and Friendship

" "A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself." " # Quotations

" If I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will grow up into a beehive. " # Compliments # Home # Love

" "When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it." " # Mind

" No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. " # Excuses # Infatuation # Nature

" If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. " # Lies and Lying # Love # Effort