Lewis Carroll Quotes
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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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Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.
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Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again.
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O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.
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Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!
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As life draws nearer to its end, I feel more and more clearly that it will not matter in the least, at the last day, what form of religion a man has professed-nay, that many who have never even heard of Christ, will in that day find themselves saved by His blood.
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Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.
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But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything.
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Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say.
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Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?
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I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
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I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
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It's a large as life and twice as natural.
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I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.
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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 maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.
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If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!
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Little Alice fell down the hole, bumped her head and bruised her soul.
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I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
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It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?
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Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.
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There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
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One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.
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The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.