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But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

Words and numbers are of equal value, for in the cloak of knowledge one is warp and the other woof.

Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.

you must pick your words very carefully and be sure to say just what you intend to say.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.

Freedom is not a license for chaos,

There are no wrong roads to anywhere.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

What you can do is often a matter of what you will do.

Very serious, very serious. You can't get in without a reason.

You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.

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.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow's music and eagerly awaited the dawn.

A good book written for children can be read by adults.

To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.

Rhyme and reason answer all problems

Many of the things which can never be, often are.

And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many." - Which Macabre

Every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not.

Don't worry," Milo replied; "I'll just wrap one up for later," and he folded his napkin around "EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR THE BEST.

Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.

It's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

But just because you can never reach it, doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.

Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

I wouldn't eat too many of those [half-baked ideas] if I were you. They may look good, but you can get terribly sick of them."
-Tock

He punctuated this last thought with such a deep sigh that a house sparrow singing near by stopped and rushed home to be with his family.

You're ... in ... the ... Dol ... drums, wailed a voice that sounded far away.

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.

EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR THE BEST.

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.

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

I'm the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be.

You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than right for the wrong reasons.

What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

And, most of all, of how much could be accomplished with just a little thought.

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.

Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun, suggested the duke.

They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.

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

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

changes are so frightening.

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.

From 2:30 to 3:30 we put off for tomorrow what we could have done today.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.

They never see what they're too much of a hurry to look for

Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.
- Humbug

it seemed a great wonder that the world, which was so large, could sometimes feel so small and empty.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

I didn't know that I was going to have to eat my own words:
- Milo

Why is it,' he said quietly, 'that quite often even the things which are correct just don't seem to be right?

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.

Oh, don't worry about that," said the Mathemagician as he scooped up the pieces. "We use the broken ones for fractions.

Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

Being lost is not a matter of knowing where you are. It's a matter of knowing where you aren't.