Lewis Carroll Quotes

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

Lewis Carroll

Quotes to Explore

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Samuel Butler
- World
- Live
- Fools
In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.

Ferdinand de Saussure
- Different
- Game
- Kind
Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.

V. S. Naipaul
- Fun
- Think
- Know
The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.

M. J. Rose
- People
- Book
- Success
Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.

Iain McGilchrist
- World
- Music
- Art
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Ovid
- Death
- Bitter
- Less