Famous quotes by Authors

"One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"Sentence first, verdict afterwards"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"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 is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"Which form of proverb do you prefer: Better late than never, or Better never than late?"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"We called him Tortoise because he taught us"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it"

Terry Pratchett, Author

"The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp"

Terry Pratchett, Author

"Sooner or later, we're all someone's dog"

Terry Pratchett, Author

"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out 'til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along"

Terry Pratchett, Author

"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this"

Terry Pratchett, Author

"You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look"

Terry Pratchett, Author

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