Quotes from Lewis Carroll

Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!

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

It's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle - to get one's head cut off.

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

It would fare but ill with many of us if we were left to superintend our own digestion and circulation. 'Bless me!' one would cry, 'I forgot to wind up my heart this morning! To think that it has been standing still for the last three hours!' 'I can't walk with you this afternoon,' a friend would say, 'as I have no less than eleven dinners to digest. I had to let them stand over from last week, being so busy, and my doctor says he will not answer for the consequences if I wait any longer!'

Breakfast, dinner, tea; in extreme cases, breakfast, luncheon, dinner, tea, supper, and a glass of something hot at bedtime. What care we take about feeding the lucky body! Which of us does as much for his mind? And what causes the difference? Is the body so much the more important of the two? By no means: but life depends on the body being fed, whereas we can continue to exist as animals (scarcely as men) though the mind be utterly starved and neglected.

He would answer to "Hi!" or to any loud crySuch as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!"To "What-you-may-call-um!" or?"What-was-his-name!"But especially "Thing-um-a-jig!"

And thick and fast they came at last,And more, and more, and more—All hopping through the frothy waves,And scrambling to the shore.

"I have answered three questions, and that is enough,"Said his father. "Don't give yourself airs!Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?Be off, or I'll kick you downstairs!"

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?

He thought he saw a BuffaloUpon the chimneypiece:He looked again, and found it wasHis sister's husband's niece.

Curtsy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.