Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem The Hunting of the Snark, all examples of the genre of literary nonsense.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Everything's got a moral if only you can find it.

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

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

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

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

Oh 'tis love 'tis love that makes the world go round.

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

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

Sentence first verdict afterwards.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

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

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

We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

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

'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 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.

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

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.

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

'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.'

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

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end, then stop.

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

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

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