If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
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Quotes by Lewis Carroll
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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
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.
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
'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.'
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.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
'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.'
We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
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.
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
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