‘I could tell you my adventures – beginning from this morning,’ said Alice a little timidly: ‘but ‘it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.’ – Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alice in Chapter 10.
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. – Lewis Carroll
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. – Lewis Carroll
Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late? – Lewis Carroll
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. – Lewis Carroll
‘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.’ – Lewis Carroll
But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again. – Lewis Carroll
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. – Lewis Carroll
‘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.’ – Lewis Carroll
‘The time has come,’ the walrus said, ‘to talk of many things: of shoes and ships – and sealing wax – of cabbages and kings.’ – Lewis Carroll
Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you’re at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky. – Lewis Carroll
