'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.'

Lewis Carroll

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You would have to be half-mad to dream me up. by Lewis Carroll

You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.

mad half dream

And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said.

three done paper

What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.

should-have children hands

“I don't like the look of it at all,” said the King: “however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.” “I'd rather not,” the Cat remarked.

cat kings hands

The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?" Alice: "Yes..." The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.

mad wine young

It's always tea-time. by Lewis Carroll

It's always tea-time.

tea-time tea

We're all mad here. by Lewis Carroll

We're all mad here.

mad

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

moral children thinking

This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.

bells ocean doubt

You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying. by Lewis Carroll

You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.

through-the-looking-glass bits cry

No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation by Lewis Carroll

No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation

common-sense ghost common

"Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted.

queens white math

By which I get my wealth-- by Lewis Carroll

By which I get my wealth--

wealth drink noble

Who sail on stormy seas; by Lewis Carroll

Who sail on stormy seas;

bread sea way

I have often seen a cat without a grin - but a grin without a cat - remember the cat kept appearing and disappearing slowly bit by bit.

disappear cat remember

If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that the day of destruction is at hand, but brought on by means of an agent very opposite to that of heat.

fire mean hands

First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.

events hate believe

It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pas... by Lewis Carroll

It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.

doe running tree

With a sort of mental squint. by Lewis Carroll

With a sort of mental squint.

ability

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

through-the-looking-glass good-man poetry