Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis's Law of Travel: The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn't belong to anyone, ever.

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.

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 your age, I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'

''One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice,'' said the Queen. ''When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.''

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.

Darling Carrot, do you think you could ever love a cripple?" "No, I don't think so.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

I learned long ago that being Lewis Carrol was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.

Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it-beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? ''That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.'' Said the Cat. I don't much care where -- Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

''If everybody minded their own business,'' the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ''the world would go round a deal faster than it does.''

Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes: he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.

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

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.

''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

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!

And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

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.

Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "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!

The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright: And this was very odd, because it was The middle of the night.

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.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

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

"Where shall I begin, please your Majesty' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end then stop.'

"What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations'

Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.

It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others.

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!

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast.