Lewis Carroll Quotes

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

Is this thing safe?" "Safe as life," Gansey replied.

she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.

Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.

My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’

In the long term everyone traffics in foregone conclusions, and in the short term they just get drunk. This is the way it has always been. Some half-assed ambiguity masquerading as mystery is all anybody's really looking for.

I don't know how long I kept at it... I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still. It didn't seem to be summer any more

True, I've been a long time making up my mind, but now I'm giving you a definite answer. I won't say yes, and I won't say no - but I'm giving you a definite maybe.

There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all.

The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.

There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.

Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

I've learned a long time ago, you don't say anything for absolutely certain.

Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known. If you look with open eyes at your actual life, it's always going to be the kind of long division problem that doesn't work out perfectly evenly. Poems let you accept the multiplicity and complexity of the actual, they let us navigate the unnavigable, insoluble parts of our individual fates and shared existence.

If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.

Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run.

So I learned another system: When in doubt, keep it out – out of earshot, out of the house – even if this meant, really, just keeping it in.

Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.

I'm never saying never - I'm saying I'm not about to.

I don't know whether I'll reach 40. I don't know whether I'll reach 35. I can't be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn't think I'd make 30.