I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there ar...
I didn't know that I was going to have to eat my own words,' objected Milo. 'Of course, of course, everyone here does,' the king grunted. 'You should have made a tastier speech.
How can you see something that isn't there? yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,he said. For instance, if something is there, you ca...
For instance, said the boy again, if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the living room, and covered in tinsel, while the trees opened our...
Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you’re going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations,
Every time he thought about it he became more convinced that there was nothing that was really true and even less in which to believe. So it was simpler not to care about anything, for in that way he...
Don't you know anything at all about numbers?Well, I don't think they're very important, snapped Milo, too embarrassed to admit the truth.NOT IMPORTANT! roared the Dodecahedron, turning red with fury....
Does everyone here grow the way you do? puffedMilo when he had caught up.Almost everyone, replied Alec, and then he stoppeda moment and thought. Now and then, though, some-one does begin to grow diffe...
Do all those words mean the same thing? gasped Milo. Of course. Certainly. Precisely. Exactly. Yes, they replied in order. Well, then, said Milo, not understanding why each one said the same thing in...
But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.
But I could never have done it, he objected, without everyone else's help.That may be true, said Reason gravely, but you had the courage to try; and what you do is often simply a matter of what you...
Ali što ćemo s Dvorcem u oblacima? Možda je on ipak važan. (...)Neka ga vjetar nosi, odgovorila je Smisla.I sretan mu put, dodala je Mjera, jer bez obzira koliko bio lijep, on je ipak samo zatvor.
1. Milo There was once a boy named Milo who didn’t know what to do with himself—not just sometimes, but always. When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On th...
I)t's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what you do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.
I)t's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what you do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.... what you learn today, for no reason at all, wil...
You must pick your words very carefully and be sure to say just what you intend to say.
Shoulder, so lightly that he hardly noticed, was a small creature exactly the color of his shirt. Allow me to introduce all of us, the creature went on. We are the Lethargarians, at your service. Milo...
Here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it cannot do for you. He placed in Milo’s breast pocket a small gleaming pencil which, except for the size, was much like his own. Then,...
You’ll find, he remarked gently, that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.
You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?