There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.
If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
Without a plan, it doesn't matter which way you're going.
My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.
Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!
Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
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 contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?
'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.'
Alice tried another question. "What sort of people live about here?" "In THAT direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter: And in THAT direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad." "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.
If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.
I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.
No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.
If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.
It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity
No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
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