Lewis Carroll Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“'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.'”

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

“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.”