"Begin at the beginning,", the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop |
"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." |
"Give your evidence," said the king |
"If everybody minded their own business," the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, "the world would go round a deal faster than it does |
"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and then the different branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision |
"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it |
"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings |
"You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak - Pray, how did you manage to do it? "In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law, And argued e |
And thick and fast they came at last, / And more, and more, and more. |
And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors. |
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - 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. |
Beware the Jabberwock, my son. |
But answer came there none - / And this was scarcely odd because / They'd eaten every one. |
But I was thinking of a plan to dye one's whiskers green. |
But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again |