Lewis Carroll Quotes
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Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.
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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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So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies.
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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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Who sail on stormy seas; And that's the way I get my bread -- A trifle, if you please.
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If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.
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The light was faint, and soft the air That breathed around the place; And she was lithe, and tall, and fair, And with a wayward grace Her queenly head she bare.
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The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.
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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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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?
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You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.
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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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The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
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One can't believe impossible things.
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A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!
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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 I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that the day of destruction is at hand, but brought on by means of an agent very opposite to that of heat.
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In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail--not the tail that wags the dog.
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If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
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My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.
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In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.
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When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.
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You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?