Quotes by Lewis Carroll
- We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
- The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
- Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
- Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
- 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.
- Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- 'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
- Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
- 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.
- There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- '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.'
- No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
- Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
- Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
- Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
- Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
- Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
- Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
- She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
- It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
- If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
- I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
- I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
- His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
- Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- 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.
- But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.
- '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.'
- That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
- One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
- The only limitations in life are the ones you create in your own mind.
- In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.
- Life's greatest lessons come not from success, but from embracing failure and finding the strength to rise again.
- In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take, the relationships we were too afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.
- In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take and the dreams we didn't chase.
- Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
- In the end, we only regret chances we didn't take
- In the end we only regret the chances we didn't take
- In the end, we only regret the chances we never took.
- The only way to achieve the impossible is to have a little faith in the possible.
- Imagination is the only weapon in the battle against reality.
- Imagination is the only weapon in the battle against reality!