The Infinite Library

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

“'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.'”

“Mad Hatter: Am I going mad? Alice: Yes, you're mad, bonkers, off the top of your head...but...I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

“I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!”

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

“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

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

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”

“Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.”

“Why it's simply impassible! Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!”

“have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.”

“But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.”

“Sentence first, verdict afterwards.”

“Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?”

“'The horror of that moment,' the King went on, T shall never, never forget!' 'You will, though,'the Queen said, 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.'”

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”

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

“One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.”

“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?”

“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”

“Curiouser and curiouser.”

“No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.”

“You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.”

“There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.”

“IN THE END… We only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were afraid to have,and the decisions we waited too long to make.”

“His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.”

“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.”

“Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.”

“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.”

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

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

“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.”

“What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.”

“We called him Tortoise because he taught us.”

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

“That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.”

“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what 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!”

“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 for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!”

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

“And never, never, dear madam, put 'Wednesday' simply as the date! That way madness lies!”

“Alice sighed wearily. `I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, `than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.' `If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, `you wouldn't talk about wasting it. It's him.' `I don't know what you mean,' said Alice. `Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. `I dare say you never even spoke to Time!' `Perhaps not,' Alice cautiously replied: `but I know I have to beat time when I learn music.' `Ah! that accounts for it,' said the Hatter. `He won't stand beating. Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you liked with the clock. For instance, suppose it were nine o'clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons: you'd only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! Half-past one, time for dinner!”

“Curiouser and curiouser!”

“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.”

“'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'”

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