lewis Carroll

“Always speak the truth—think before you speak—and write it down afterwards.” [the Red Queen, Through the Looking Glass]

“ 'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedle dee, '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!' ” [Alice Through the Looking Glass]

“I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

“I have had prayers answered--most strangely so sometimes--but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been more evident in what He has refused me.”

“If everyone minded their own business…the world would go round a deal faster than it does.” [the Dutchess, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland]

“I’m very brave, generally…only today I happen to have a headache.”  [Through the Looking Glass]

“ 'In my youth,' said his father, 'I took to the law,

And argued each case with my wife;

And the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw

Has lasted the rest of my life.' ”

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

“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.  ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked.  ‘Where do you want to go?’ was his response.  ‘I don't know,’ Alice answered.  ‘Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.’ "

“Sentence first, verdict afterwards.”

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

“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less.”

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

“ 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'

'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.”  [Alice Through the Looking Glass]