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• Can you do Addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?
  "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted....
• You see it's like a portmanteau--there are two meanings packed up into one word.
  -- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Gla...
• The other Messenger's called Hatta. I must have TWO, you know -- to come and go.
  One to come, and one to go. -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• I'm very brave, generally," he went on in a low voice
  only today I happen to have a headache." -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• JABBERWOCKY And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!
  One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!...
• That's the effect of living backwards: it always makes one a little giddy at first, but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• Seven years and six months!" Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully.
  "An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you'd asked MY advice, I'd have said 'Leave off at seven' -- but it's too late now....
• Now I'll give YOU something to believe. I'm just one hundred and one, five months and a day.
  I can't believe THAT!" said Alice. "Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone....
• The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his migh
  He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright -- And this was very odd, because it was The middle of the night....