I wouldn't eat too many of those [half-baked ideas] if I were you. They may look good, but you can get terribly sick of them.-Tock
EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR THE BEST.
Being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't—and I don't care at all about where I'm not.- Alec
And remember, also...that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all...
Ali to je samo velika olovka, usprotivio se Uholaž i u nju kucnuo štapom za šetnju.To je istina, suglasio se Matemagičar, ali kad se jednom naučiš njome služiti, onda nema kraja onom što možeš učiniti...
Today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so. For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.
I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.
The front seat with his alarm again ringing furiously. Are you all right? shouted Milo. Umphh, grunted Tock. Sorry to get carried away, but I think you get the point. As they drove along, Tock continu...
Every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not.
Changes are so frightening.
You certainly must be very old to have reached the ground already. Oh no, said Milo seriously. In my family we all start on the ground and grow up, and we never know how far until we actually get ther...
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
When he had repeated them often enough, they became a decision.
We’re not interested in making sense; it’s not our job.
There’s lots to do; we have a very busy schedule—— At 8 o’clock we get up, and then we spend From 8 to 9 daydreaming. From 9 to 9:30 we take our early midmorning nap. From 9:30 to 10:30 we dawdle and...
There's nothing to it, they all said in chorus, if you have a magic staff. Then six of them cancelled themselves out and simply disappeared.But it's only a big pencil, the Humbug objected, tapping at...
Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up toward the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that. What happens to them? insiste...
I'm the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be.
I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit. The
Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.