"You are old, Father William," the young man said,
"And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head--
Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."
'T was brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
He chortled in his joy.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings.
As large as life and twice as natural.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
"I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice; "only today I happen to have a headache."
Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.
I am fond of children--except boys.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
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.
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be masterâthat's all.".