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Them Quotes by Lewis Carroll
- While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger…
- ...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!
- For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to…
- They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs...
- Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the…
- Do you hear the snow against the windowpanes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all…
- Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on…
- "Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them…
- 'What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful…
- If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as…
- Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than…
- If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And…
- This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and…
- I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know,…
- It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.
- I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when we use them;…
- I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two,…
- When I’m a Duchess,” she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all.…
- So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all…
- It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they…
- Alice had begun with 'Let's pretend we're kings and queens;' and her sister, who liked being exact, had argued that they couldn't, because there were…
More Them Quotes
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster