Frasi di Alan Alexander Milne

„Non puoi stare nel tuo angolo della foresta in attesa che gli altri vengano da te. A volte devi andare da loro.“

—  Alan Alexander Milne

„Per sempre non è lungo, Christopher, purché io sia con te.“

—  Alan Alexander Milne

„Se metto un nido d'ape fuori da casa mia, diventerà un alveare.“

—  Alan Alexander Milne

„Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.“

—  A.A. Milne

„Pooh, how do you spell love?' 'You don't spell love Piglet, you feel it“

—  A.A. Milne

Variante: How do you spell love?
You don't spell it, you feel it.

„I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.“

—  A.A. Milne, libro Winnie-the-Pooh

Origine: Winnie-the-Pooh

„What I like doing best is Nothing."

"How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time.

"Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it.

It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."

"Oh!" said Pooh.“

—  A.A. Milne, libro Winnie-the-Pooh

Origine: Winnie-the-Pooh

„People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.“

—  A.A. Milne, libro Winnie-the-Pooh

Origine: Winnie-the-Pooh

„It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?“

—  A.A. Milne, libro Winnie-the-Pooh

Origine: Winnie-the-Pooh

„To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.“

—  A.A. Milne

Origine: The World of Winnie-the-Pooh

„If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.“

—  A.A. Milne

„What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh.“

—  A.A. Milne, libro Winnie-the-Pooh

Variante: What day is it?", asked Winnie the Pooh
"It's today," squeaked Piglet
"My favorite day," said Pooh
Origine: Winnie-the-Pooh

„Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.“

—  A.A. Milne, libro Winnie-the-Pooh

Origine: Winnie-the-Pooh

„Some people care too much. I think it's called love.“

—  A.A. Milne, libro Winnie-the-Pooh

Origine: Winnie-the-Pooh

„Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.“

—  A.A. Milne, libro The House at Pooh Corner

Origine: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Seven.
Contesto: "Lucky we know the forest so well, or we might get lost," said Rabbit half an hour later, and he gave the careless laugh which you give when you know the Forest so well that you can't get lost.
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you."

„You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.“

—  A.A. Milne, libro Winnie-the-Pooh

Origine: Winnie-the-Pooh

„Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.“

—  A.A. Milne

„I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.“

—  A.A. Milne

„Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.“

—  A.A. Milne

Variante: Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in our hearts.