Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
—Lewis Carroll
Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
—Lewis Carroll
Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
—The King of Hearts
Write legibly.
—Lewis Carroll
Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
—The Queen of Hearts
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!
—Lewis Carroll
I think so, Brain … but does the Cheshire Cat drink evaporated milk?
If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics—it does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, so long as there is enough of them.
—Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
“My poor client’s fate now depends on your votes.”
Here the speaker sat down in his place,
And directed the Judge to refer to his notes
And briefly to sum up the case.But the Judge said he never had summed up before;
So the Snark undertook it instead,
And summed it so well that it came to far more
Than the Witnesses ever had said!
—Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark
“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.”
—Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
—The Queen of Hearts