It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

'What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' 'I can't say,' the Gnat replied.

Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.

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

So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!

I mean, what is an un-birthday present?" A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course." Alice considered a little. "I like birthday presents best," she said at last. You don't know what you're talking about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How many days are there in a year?" Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice. And how many birthdays have you?" One.