Lewis Carroll quotes and words of wisdom

"Will you, won"t you, will you, won"t you, will you join the dance?"
Found in the topic Communism.

"The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam to-day."
Found in the topic Rule.

"The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things: Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings."
Found in the topic Talk.

""The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes?and ships?and sealing-wax?Of cabbages?and kings?And why the sea is boiling hot?And whether pigs have wings.""
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves."
Found in the topic Sense.

"It"s as large as life and twice as natural."
Found in the topic Life.

"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" was his response. "I don"t know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn"t matter.""
Found in the topic Cat.

"Curiouser and curiouser! cried Alice."
Found in the topic Curiosity.

"What is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversations."
Found in the topic Book.

""Alice laughed: "There"s no use trying," she said; "one can"t believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven"t had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I"ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.""
Found in the topic Breakfast.

"The different branches of Arithmetic ? Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."
Found in the topic Mathematics.

"Be what you would seem to be ? or, if you"d like it put more simply ? Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."
Found in the topic Self.

"Now, here you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
Found in the topic Running.

""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." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master?that"s all.""
Found in the topic Language.

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

"If you don"t know where you are going, you"ll probably end up somewhere else."
Found in the topic Going.

"In Alice in Wonderland, Alice asks the Cheshire Cat for directions: "Would you tell me, please, which is the way to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, " says the cat. "I don"t much care where..." says Alice. "Then it doesn"t matter which way you go," says the cat."
Found in the topic Depend.

"It"s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."
Found in the topic Memory.

""There"s the King"s Messenger. He"s in prison now, being punished: and the trial doesn"t begin until next Wednesday: and of course the crime comes last of all." "Suppose he never commits the crime?" said Alice. "That would be all the better, wouldn"t it?" the Queen said."
Found in the topic Justice.

"How queer everything is today! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I"ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I"m not the same, the next question is, "Who in the world am I?" Ah, that"s the great puzzle!"
Found in the topic Change.

Interesting Quotes

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.Douglas Adams - English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.Henry Louis Mencken