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Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
- Lewis Carroll
"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."
- Lewis Carroll
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.
- Lewis Carroll
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
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She generally gave herself very good advice,
(though she very seldom followed it).
- Lewis Carroll
There are three hundred and sixty-four days
when you might get un-birthday presents,
and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Lewis Carroll
"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things:
of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings."
- Lewis Carroll
"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
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
- Lewis Carroll
Take care of the sense
and the sounds will take care of themselves.
- Lewis Carroll
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
- Lewis Carroll
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
- Lewis Carroll
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.
- Lewis Carroll
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.
- Lewis Carroll
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.
His responses was a question: "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham
All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz
The church is always trying to get other people to reform;
it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little,
by way of example.
- Mark Twain
The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.
- the movie The Little Mermaid (1989)
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you can't annoy somebody with what you write,
I think there's little point in writing.
- Kingsley Amis
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
Magic is natural to Wizards,
and only a little harder for the rest of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
- Amelia Earhart
Be avid.
Create apart from perfection.
Risk failure.
Cover your words with sweat.
Run a little
Touch excruciatingly.
Laugh until you cry.
Dance with your eyes closed.
Care.
Understand you die a little in every moment.
Be Enlivened
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Little do men perceive what solitude is,
and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company,
and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Pity may represent little more
than the impersonal concern
which prompts the mailing of a check,
but true sympathy is the personal concern
which demands the giving of one's soul.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
- Jimmy Johnson
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
Campaign behavior for wives:
Always be on time.
Do as little talking as humanly possible.
Lean back in the parade car
so everybody can see the president.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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