But you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
You're on the Island of Conclusions. Make yourself at home. You're apt to be here for some time.''But how did we get here?' asked Milo, who was still a bit puzzled by being there at all.'You jumped, o...
You may not see it now, said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even...
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
What a shame, signed the Dodecahedron. They're so very useful. Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with a tail a foot and a half long can build a dam twelve feet high and six feet wide in...
Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.
Is everyone with one face called a Milo?Oh no, Milo replied; some are called Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things.How terribly confusing, he cried. Everything here is called exact...
But it’s not just learning things that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.
Why, did you know that there are almost as many kinds of stillness as there are sounds? But, sadly enough, no one pays any attention to them these days.
Why don't they live in Illusions?' suggested the Humbug. 'It's much prettier.' 'Many of them do,' he answered, walking in the direction of the forest once again, 'but it's just as bad to live in a pla...
What kind of a place is Expectations? inquired Milo, unable to see the humor and feeling very doubtful of the little man's sanity.Good question, good question, he exclaimed. Expectations is the place...
What a strange thing to have happen, he thought (just as you must be thinking right now). This game is much more serious than I thought, for here I am riding on a road I’ve never seen, going to a plac...
The Humbug whistled gaily at his work, for he was never as happy as when he had a job which required no thinking at all. After what seemed like days, he had dug a hole scarcely large enough for his th...
Of course, if you've ever gotten a surprise package, you can imagine how puzzled and excited Milo was; and if you've never gotten one, pay close attention, because someday you might.
If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
I didn't know that I was going to have to eat my own words:- Milo
For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn’t there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That’s why imaginary things are often easier to...
But I'm afraid it can't be done.Certainly not; it can't be done, repeated the Humbug.Why not? asked Milo.Why not indeed? exclaimed the bug, who seemed equally at home on either side of an argument.Muc...
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
There are no wrong roads to anywhere.