“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”Tagged: Alice In Wonderland, Lewis Carrol
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean. Neither more nor less.”Tagged: Words, Language, Meaning
“Finding meaning, like losing meaning, involves pleasure as well as pain. But then losing meaning, like finding it, does too, as the best nonsense reminds us.”Tagged: Meaning, Pleasure, Pain, Nonsense
“A dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.”Tagged: Dogs, humans, growling, wagging
“Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!”Tagged: Silence, Language, Words
“So she was considering in her own mind... whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies...”Tagged: daisies, Effort, Hard Work, Flowers
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more, nor less.”Tagged: Words, Meaning, Language
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”Tagged: Running, travel, Leaving