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• The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. "Where shall I begin, please your Majesty ?
  he asked. "Begin at the beginning,", the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end...
• Please your Majesty," said the Knave, "I didn't write it, and they can't prove that I did
  here's no name signed at the end." "If you didn't sign it," said the King, "that only makes things worse....
• If I may begin at the beginning...
• I beg your pardon?" said Alice. "It isn't respectable to beg," said the King.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• You know," he added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle -- to get one's head cut off.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• One day the King decided that he would force all his subjects to tell the truth.
  A gallows was erected in front of the city gates....
• You are old, father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white
  And yet you incessantly stand on your head -- Do you think, at your age, it is right?...