Lewis Carroll Quotes
The best way to explain it is to do it.
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, because I'm not myself, you see.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
Why, 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.
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
But it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
If everybody minded their own business ... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
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.
Is all our Life, then but a dream
Seen faintly in the goldern gleam
Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?
"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."
"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. I'm mad. You're Mad"
If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.
I suppose every child has a world of his own — and every man, too, for the matter of that. I wonder if that's the cause for all the misunderstanding there is in Life?
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?
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.
Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
I believe this thought, of the possibility of death — if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.
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.
Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith - the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!
