“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean. Neither more nor less.”— Lewis Carrol, amazon.comTagged: 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.”— Lewis Carrol, amazon.comTagged: 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.”— Lewis Carrol, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, humans, growling, wagging
“Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!”— Lewis Carrol, amazon.comTagged: 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...”— Lewis Carrol, amazon.comTagged: daisies, Effort, Hard Work, Flowers
“If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.”— Lewis Carrol, amazon.comTagged: Belief, believing, Friendship
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more, nor less.”— Lewis Carrol, amazon.comTagged: Words, Meaning, Language
“Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.”— Lewis Carrol, amazon.comTagged: morals, Lessons, Learning, Aphorisms
“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!”— Lewis Carrol, amazon.comTagged: Running, travel, Leaving