Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing.
-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Glass"
-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Glass"
Related:
- Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.
Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking... - Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do,
to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere... - You see it's like a portmanteau--there are two meanings packed up into one
word.
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking... - You know," he added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that
can possibly happen to one in a battle -
to get one's head cut off." -- Lewis Carroll, "Through... - You see, a minute goes by so fearfully quick. You
might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!
Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking... - The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never,
never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said,... - Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so,
it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as... - Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking... - I beg your pardon?" said Alice.
"It isn't respectable to beg," said the King.
Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking...
From the same category:
- To save your world you asked this man to die;
Would this man,
could he see you now, ask why? -- W. H. Auden (1907... - How do you find an isomorphism? You just f it. See?
Graph theory is a lot of fun." -- I. Goulden Combinatorics... - Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!
New Testament -- Luke vi,... - Far from all resort of mirth
Save the cricket on the hearth.
John Milton (1608-1674) -- Il Penseroso, Line... - How many
gnomes
-- does it take to change a light light bulb?
None. The light bulb keeps blowing up...
