Jul 10, 2005 15:49
Alice: Why am I here?
Duchess: To save Jack from a death worse than fate!
Mad Hatter: Time marches on its stomach!
Alice: It's an army that marches on its stomach!
March Hare: It doesn't matter what's supposed to march on its stomach. It's time to move down.
"Sentence first, verdict afterwards."
""Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it.""
"The different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."
"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!"
""The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes-and ships-and sealing-wax-Of cabbages-and kings-And why the sea is boiling hot-And whether pigs have wings.""
"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. "Where do you want to go?" was his response. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter.""
""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." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master-that's all.""
"How queer everything is today! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, "Who in the world am I?" Ah, that's the great puzzle!"