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• 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....
• I'll be judge, I'll be jurry," said cunning old Fury
  I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death....
• 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....
• 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...
• 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....
• The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday -- but never jam today.
  "It MUST come sometimes to 'jam to-day,'" Alice objected....
• I beg your pardon?" said Alice. "It isn't respectable to beg," said the King.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• Can you do Addition?" the White Queen asked. "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....
• Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...