Showing posts with label Lewis Carroll Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lewis Carroll Quotes. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

She generally


She generally gave herself very good advice,
(though she very seldom followed it).
~Lewis Carroll

Monday, October 31, 2011

Twinkle twinkle little bat

Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.

~Lewis Carroll

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Which form

Which form of proverb do you prefer?
Better late than never, or Better never than late?

~Lewis Carroll

Monday, December 27, 2010

There comes a pause

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.

~Lewis Carroll

Thursday, August 5, 2010

But I don't want to

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

~Lewis Carroll

Who

Who in the world am I?
Ah, that's the great puzzle.

~Lewis Carroll

Always

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

~Lewis Carroll

It's a poor sort

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

~Lewis Carroll

That's the reason

That's the reason they're called lessons,
because they lesson from day to day.

~Lewis Carroll

I can't

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

~Lewis Carroll

His answer

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

~Lewis Carroll

Contrariwise

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.

~Lewis Carroll

I have proved

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

~Lewis Carroll

When I use a word

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

~Lewis Carroll

The rule is

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday -
but never jam today.

~Lewis Carroll

Everything's

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

~Lewis Carroll

Begin

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

~Lewis Carroll

Why, sometimes

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

~Lewis Carroll

If you don't

If you don't know where you are going,
any road will get you there.

~Lewis Carroll

While the laughter

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

~Lewis Carroll

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