"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!'"
— Lewis Carroll

""But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.

"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."

"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.

"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings"
— Lewis Carroll

"Curiouser and curiouser."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"...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 (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."
— Lewis Carroll

"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, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.""
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe."
— Lewis Carroll (Jabberwocky and Other Poems)

"“I've had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone: “so I can't take more.” “You mean you can't take less,” said the Hatter: “it's very easy to take more than nothing.”"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

"Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" was his response. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."
— Rudyard Kipling

"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves."
— Rudyard Kipling

"I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)"
— Lewis Carroll

"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe."
— Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There)

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."
— Dr. Seuss

"If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too."
— Dr. Seuss

"How did it get so late so soon?"
— Dr. Seuss

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"'Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.'"
— A.A. Milne

"Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?"
— A.A. Milne

"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
— A.A. Milne

"A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself."
— A.A. Milne

"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?""
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines
Lived twelve little girls in two straight lines
In two straight lines they broke their bread
And brushed their teeth and went to bed.
They left the house at half past nine
In two straight lines in rain or shine-
The smallest one was Madeline."
— Ludwig Bemelmans (Madeline)

"On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon

That night he had a stomach ache."
— Eric Carle (The Very Hungry Caterpillar)

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
— Louisa May Alcott

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"
— L. Frank Baum (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

"Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy. "
— Shel Silverstein (The Giving Tree)

"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays)

"Jack: Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden.

Algy: But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!

Jack: I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing.

Algy: That may be, but the muffins are the same! "
— The Importance of Being Earnest

"Jack. This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose?
Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life.
Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here.
Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

"Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . ."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windemere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, Salome)

"If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all."
— Frances Hodgson Burnett (A Little Princess)

"Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked."
— Frances Hodgson Burnett (A Little Princess)

"When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies."
— Frances Hodgson Burnett (A Little Princess)

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. "
— Frances Hodgson Burnett (Secret Garden, Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy: Three Complete Novels)

"Tomorrow is fresh, with no mistakes in it."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

"Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

"My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

"I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

"Though we adore men individually, I agree that as a group, they're rather stupid.
"
— Mary Poppins

"As I expected. "Mary Poppins, practically
perfect in every way.""
— Mary Poppins

"Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. "
— Beatrix Potter

"The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story."
— Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn)

"'It's snowing still,' said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is"
"And freezing"
"Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.""
— A.A. Milne

"'I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.'"
— A.A. Milne