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• The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!
  "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it....
• Seven years and six months!" Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully.
  "An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you'd asked my advice, I'd have said `Leave off at seven' -- but it's too late now....
• Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.
  If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that....
• When I come upon anything-- in Logic or in any other hard subject-- that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone.
  One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self...
• You are old," said the youth, "and I'm told by my peers That your lectures bore people to death.
  Yet you talk at one hundred conventions per year -- Don't you think that you should save your breath?...
• You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before, And make errors few people could bea
  You complain about everyone's English but yours -- Do you really think this is quite fair?...
• And thus they give the time, that Nature meant For peaceful sleep and meditative snores, To ceaseless din and mindless merriment And waste of shoes and floors.
  -- Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-98), -- English writer, mathematician -- Four Riddles, no....
• You know you say things are 'much of a muchness' -- did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?
  "Really, now you ask me, " said Alice, very much confused, I don't think --" "Then you shouldn't talk," said the Hatter....
• Curiouser and curiouser! -- Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland