Lewis Carroll Quotes
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There are certain things - as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three - That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most Is a thing they call the Sea.
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But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who's stopping us from inventing one?
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For the snark was a boojum, you see.
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Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.
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People who don't think shouldn't talk.
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I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
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Without a plan, it doesn't matter which way you're going.
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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?
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As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.
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Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!
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Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.
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Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!
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If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.
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It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity.
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But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!
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There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might stand on his head to learn it!
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Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.
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Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
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I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
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Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?
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If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.
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Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
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If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!
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I suppose every child has a world of his own - and every man, too, for the matter of that. I wonder if that's the cause for all the misunderstanding there is in Life?