"'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to……" — Lewis Carroll
"'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'"
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310 Quotes by Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll has 310 quotes on this site.
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I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you…
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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for…
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'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're…
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She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't,…
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Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
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'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it…
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody…
— Bill Vaughan
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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
— Mark Twain
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Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage…
— John le Carre
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The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato…
— Anthony Burgess
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Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage,…
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.
— Rick DeMarinis
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Brains, like cabbages, are beautiful-but in a different way. Cabbage heads are dumb and sterile, whereas brains are personal, intelligent…
— Carl Pfeiffer
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of…
— Robert Graves
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Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
— David McCullough
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Once our storyline gets under way, I just hope people don't throw cabbages at me in the market.
— Alfre Woodard
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