Meaning of the quote

The quote "Tiggers don't like honey" means that the fictional character Tigger, from the Winnie the Pooh stories, does not enjoy eating honey. Tiggers are playful, bouncy creatures, and they prefer other foods or activities over the sweet, sticky honey that Winnie the Pooh loves so much.

About A. A. Milne

A. A. Milne was an English writer best known for his Winnie-the-Pooh stories and children’s poetry. He served in both World Wars and was the father of the character Christopher Robin, upon whom the famous character is based. Milne bequeathed the original Winnie-the-Pooh manuscripts to his alma mater, Trinity College, Cambridge.

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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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British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

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British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh

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

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British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh

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British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh

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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British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

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British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh

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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British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh

My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

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British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh

Tiggers don’t like honey.

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British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

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British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh

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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British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

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British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.

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British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

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British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

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British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh

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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British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

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British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

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British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh