She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

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

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.

Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.' And what does IT live on?' Weak tea with cream in it.' A new difficulty came into Alice's head. `Supposing it couldn't find any?' she suggested. Then it would die, of course.' But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully. It always happens,' said the Gnat.

You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.

No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.