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  • Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

    Through the Looking-Glass ch. 1 (1872)
  • They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.

    Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company
  • I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

    Lewis Carroll, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (2014). “The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: All the Novels, Stories and Poems: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland + Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There + Sylvie and Bruno + A Tangled Tale + What the Tortoise Said to Achilles + Puzzles from Wonderland + The Hunting of the Snark and much more”, p.197, e-artnow
  • Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.

    Wall   Drinking   Eight  
  • 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

    Mean Girls   Use   Tone  
    'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 6
  • It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile, friendly, expert, welcoming places. Physical books, which can only be seen and handled in physical bookshops, are lovely, tactile things. Destroy those bookshops, and the very commercial and cultural base to the book industry is destroyed. Once and for all. Like Humpty Dumpty, it can never be put together again.

  • You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.

    Past   Order   Years  
  • Politics right now is in a very dark place, and I think the only place for me is to do what I do - make films, create art, watch it as it evolves. Right now it's like Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall, and a great fall is happening. The behavior seems to be really dumb.

    Art   Wall   Fall  
    Source: www.esquire.com
  • I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.

    Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company
  • When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.

    1871 Through the Looking-Glass, ch.6,'Humpty Dumpty'.
  • Hickory dickory dock my daddy’s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o clock scholar blow off his legs and then watch him holler. Rockaby baby in the tree top don’t stop a bomb or you’ll probably flop. Now I lay me down to sleep my bombproof cellars good and deep but if I’m killed before I wake remember god its for your sake amen.

    Wise   Baby   Sleep  
    Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.189, Kensington Publishing Corp.
  • 'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.

    Lewis Carroll, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (2014). “The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: All the Novels, Stories and Poems: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland + Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There + Sylvie and Bruno + A Tangled Tale + What the Tortoise Said to Achilles + Puzzles from Wonderland + The Hunting of the Snark and much more”, p.195, e-artnow
  • I mean, what is an un-birthday present?" A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course." Alice considered a little. "I like birthday presents best," she said at last. You don't know what you're talking about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How many days are there in a year?" Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice. And how many birthdays have you?" One.

    Mean   Talking   Years  
    Lewis Carroll (2017). “Alice in Wonderland Collection: All Four Books: All Four Books”, p.110, Lulu.com
  • You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again... my asset values will disappear, my apartments will be worth a fraction of what they were, my ministers' jobs will be in peril, their security will be at risk and their women will become maids in other people's countries, foreign workers.

    Straits Times, April 5, 2007.
  • disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again.

    Respect   Horse   Kings  
    Charlotte Armstrong (2018). “The Dream Walker”, p.110, Head of Zeus Ltd
  • There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

    Adrian Mitchell, Lewis Carroll (2001). “Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass”, Oberon Books Limited
  • Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again

    Horse   Kings   Wall  
    Lewis Carroll (1998). “Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found There”, p.22, Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
  • 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

    Cat   Mad   People  
  • And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said.

    Three   Done   Paper  
    Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.166, Penguin
  • Know what you're talking about.

    George H.W. Bush (2013). “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings”, p.99, Simon and Schuster
  • After a disappointing summer, Humpty Dumpty has a great fall.

  • Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.

    Mean   Names   Laughing  
    'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 6
  • We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again

    Horse   Kings   Men  
    Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.15, Penguin
  • The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

    Though the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)
  • 'Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' 'I read it in a book,' said Alice. 'But I had some poetry repeated to me, much easier than that, by - Tweedledee, I think it was.' 'As to poetry, you know,' said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, 'I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that - ' 'Oh, it needn't come to that!' Alice hastily said, hoping to keep him from beginning.

    Book   Thinking   Hands  
    'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 6
  • Know what you are talking about.

  • I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if you're an egg.

    Funny   Wall   Thinking  
    FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Oct 15, 2013
  • When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?

    Wall   Fall   Sat  
    "Crime novelist P.D. James dies at 94" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. November 27, 2014.
  • My work life makes much less sense now than 20 years ago. It's Humpty-Dumpty-like in a way; I can't put the pieces back together.

    Years   Together   Pieces  
  • Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

    'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 12
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