I dare say you never even spoke to Time! Perhaps not, Alice cautiously replied; but I know I have to beat time when I listen to music.Ah! That accounts for it, said the Hatter. He won't stand a beatin...
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again
For you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
Finding meaning, like losing meaning, involves pleasure as well as pain. But then losing meaning, like finding it, does too, as the best nonsense reminds us.
Down the Rabbit-Hole
Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it. She felt that she
Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! 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 th...
Come, there's no use in crying like that!' said Alice to herself, rather sharply; 'I advise you to leave off this minute!' She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed...
Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. 'Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went...
But I'm not a serpent, I tell you! said Alice. I'm a --- I'm a ---.Well! What are you? said the Pigeon. I can see you're trying to invent something!
But I don’t want to go among mad people, Alice remarked.Oh, you can’t help that, said the Cat: we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.How do you know I’m mad? said Alice.You must be, said the Cat, or...
And though the shadow of a sighMay tremble through the story,For happy summer days gone by,And vanish'd summer glory--It shall not touch with breath of bale,The pleasance of our fairy-tale.
What matter it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied."There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.
Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare."Exactly so," said Alice."Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on."I do," Alice hastily replied; "...
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Ну что ж, решено, если я Мейбл, останусь здесь навсегда. Пусть тогда попробуют прийтит сюда за мной! Свесят головы вниз, станут звать: Подымайся, милочка, к нам. А я на них только посмотрю и отвечу: С...
What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Ch. 1
Thought Alice, without pictures or conversation? So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a...
And vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn’t be so stin...
You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk.