When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

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

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.

I am fond of children - except boys.

"In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life."

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!