What a funny watch!’ she remarked. ‘It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!’ ‘Why should it?’ muttered the Hatter. ‘Does YOUR watch tell you what year it is?’ ‘Of course not,’ Alice replied very readily: ‘but that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time together.’ ‘Which is just the case with MINE,’ said the Hatter.
Lewis CarrollOne thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.
Lewis CarrollThere's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.
Lewis CarrollI can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.
Lewis CarrollWhen, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday,culminated. I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was "Would God it were evening!" It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms (Watts'), of tracts about converted swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved.... There was but one rosy spot, in the distance, all that day: and that was "bed-time," which never could come too early!
Lewis Carroll