Oh dear, all those words again," thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. "How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a--" "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without saying.

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

In this box are all the words I know… Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is use them well and in the right places.