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But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.
Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?
I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.
I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then
I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide
If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!
If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.
I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)
But I was thinking of a way To feed oneself on batter, And so go on from day to day Getting a little fatter.
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.
It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.
You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.
Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!
'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.
Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.
The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?" Alice: "Yes..." The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.
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.
In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.
Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!
Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.
'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.'
When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.
One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.
It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity
Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?
You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.
Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!
Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are!
You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.
Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish, game or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two pennyworth of beautiful soup?
And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy.
'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.
Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!"
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.
I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.
It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.
Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.
Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.
One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.
The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.
That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!