Lewis Carroll Quotes

All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.

Lewis Carroll

• Vain
• Guide
• Afternoon
• Glide

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• That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Mean
  • Criticism
  • Just

• I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Country
  • Thought

• To be dull is easy,

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Easy
  • Active
  • Dull

• It's the job, I think, of leaders to try to address peoples' real legitimate concerns and channel them in the most constructive ways possible.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Job

• You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Dog
  • Step
  • Dies

• She [me muse] feels most at home in autumn, nonetheless, she is glad of the other seasons and loves them all. Without the others she would be unable to feel most at home in autumn, besides which, she almost feels most at home in all of them.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Home
  • She
  • Autumn

• True friends will pick you up when you fall. The bad friends will have been the one who made you fall in the first place.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Bad

• Funny, 'ow you can 'old a jewel in your 'and, and toss it away, and not even know what you 'ad until it's gone.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Away
  • Jewel
  • Toss

• It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Best
  • Banquet

• Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Power
  • Sun
  • Rays

• Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Kind
  • Fighting
  • Equality

• If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Effort

• I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Figure Out

• I remember playing the Royal Albert Hall, and a guy would say, 'Ten minutes to stage time,' and I'd get so nervous.

  

  Mike Joyce Buzzcocks
  • Playing
  • Nervous

• For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Guide
  • Prudence

• Historically, most people were far too poor to let their tastes in entertainment guide where they chose to live, and cities were hardly pleasure zones. Yet as people have become richer, they have increasingly chosen cities based on lifestyle—and the consumer city was born.

  

  Edward Glaeser
  • Born
  • Cities
  • Lifestyle

• You tend to ignore the structures that would guide you to take care of yourself if you are taking care of others too much.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Ignore
  • Guide
  • Take Care

• All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Vain
  • Guide
  • Afternoon