Quotations From Alice In Wonderland and Children's Books

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

The queen of hearts

The mad hatter

The Cheshire cat

Through the looking glass

Down the rabbit hole

Alice in Wonderland (Many parodies such as Malice in Wonderland)

I believe three impossible things before breakfast

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Quotations on Dreams and Reality

Life is but a dream.

I have a dream ..
Martin Luther King Jnr


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Quotations on Knowledge

Michael Caine, trailer for Get Carter.

Michael Caine, handprints, London.

Plaque on gatehouse, of St Olave's hospital which no longer exists, in Rotherhithe, London.

Things we know we don't know, and things we don't know we don't know.
US war/intelligence minister

Know thyself.
Greek philosopher

I think therefore I am. (Various joking tee shirts: I think therefore I vote / I think therefore I don't vote for ...)

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - drink deep.

I know that, you know that, but they don't know that.
Teddy S a v a l a s, ad for rum?

Not a lot of people know that.
Michael Caine in film

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Who Said What When

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Quotations From Charles Dickens

Hard Times

It was the the best of times and the worst of times

It is a far better thing I do than I have ever done.
Tale of Two Cities

A tale of two cities
Title of Tale of two cities

Income one pound, expenditure 19 shillings and sixpence - happiness. Income one pound, expenditure one pound and sixpence - misery.
Micawber

Scrooge
Character in A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

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Quotations From Shakespeare

All's well that ends well.

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble ..
The witches in Macbeth.  (oops - spell checker liked mad bath!)

Is this a dagger which I see before my hand? Come let me clutch thee
I have thee not and yet I see thee still ...

Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
Macbeth (Said by observers of Lady Macbeth)

My kingdom for a horse.
Richard III

Neither a lender nor a borrower be.
Advice from Polonius in Hamlet.

Once more into the breach dear Friends, once more.
King Henry

Out damned spot.
Lady Macbeth in Macbeth.

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
Romeo and Juliet

Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.

To be or not to be.
Hamlet

When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning or in rain?
The three witches at the start of Macbeth.

O, woe is me, for you/I are undone.
William Shakespeare

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Rebuke: accepting criticism - and more by Somerset Maugham

Somerset Maugham. Wikipedia

Somerset Maugham. Wikipedia.

People ask you for criticism, but the only want praise

Somerset Maugham

He also said:

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

• Quoted in Somerset Maugham (1980) by Ted Morgan

I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.

• See Wikiquote

Quotation from the book of Proverbs
Hebrew Bible (Known to Christians as Old Testament)
Reprove a scoffer/fool and he will hate you; rebuke a wise man and he will love you.
Proverbs 9.8

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Poem on Loss and Bereavement by Russian Jewish Poet Pavel

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Condolences and Consolations for loss

When I come to the end of the road, 
and the sun has set for me. 
I want no rites in a gloom-filled room. 
Why cry for a soul set free? 

Miss me a little, but not too long, 
and not with your head bowed low. 
Remember the love that was once shared. 
Miss me, but let me go. 

For this is a journey we all must take, 
and each must go alone. 
It's all a part of the master's plan, 
a step on the road to home. 

When you are lonely and sick of heart,
 go to the friends we know. 
Bear your sorrow in good deeds. 
Miss me, but let me go.

Author unknown.

For condolence letters, readings at funerals, for yourself. 

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Quotations on Facts, Brains, Dreams and IQ

Facts are better than dreams.
Churchill

The brains of a dog biscuit.
Reader's comment on a forum.

In the line for check in at the airport, overheard by Angela Lansbury on a press trip.
What's holding up this queue?
This fellow's IQ.

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Advertising, Sales and Marketing Quotations

Grave of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Sleepy Hollow, Massachusetts, USA. (Louisa M Alcott who wrote Little Women is also buried there.)

Every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Attributed to Emerson. Anonymous.

Eye level is buy level.

The consumer is not a moron. She is your wife.
Ogilvy

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson. Attributed.

Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Proverb

If you've got it, flaunt it.

We're number two; we try harder.
Avis

Every little helps.
Tesco.

You've got to be in it to win it.
National Lottery, England.

BOGOF. Buy one - get one free.

Pile it high and sell it cheap.

Tesco?

Never knowingly undersold.

John Lewis.

No such thing as a free lunch.

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Quotations during wedding ceremonies, about weddings for speeches at ceremonies and receptions and for Wedding menus and printed material

Love
Dearly beloved brethren, we are gathered here today

Who gives away this woman? (C of E. A Jewish bride is not given away but answers for herself.)

Love at first sight.
Official

Do you take this man / woman
to be your husband/wife
Forsaking all others
To love and support
In sickness and in health
to nurse through sickness back to good health?

In poverty your love shall be your riches
So long as you both shall live?

Bride to be/ Groom

I do.

When you need a hand it shall be mine

Official

I will now marry you, with this ring

I now pronounce you man and wife
You may kiss the bride
(Best man or other helper presents the ring or rings.

Spouse to be places it on the finger of their partner.

The register is signed by both and the two witnesses.

Marriage
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
(Jan Austen, never married!)

Marriage is like a pair of scissors - let no man drive them asunder

Marriage Advice
Never let the sun go down on your anger.
Whenever you're wrong admit it; whenever you're right - shut up!
(Ogden Nash)

Weddings
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

Second Marriage
Practise makes perfect

Children
May all your troubles be little ones.
The patter of tiny feet.

At your age, if you hear the patter of tiny feet, you came home drunk and this is the wrong house.
Angela Lansbury (I planned to say this in a speech at the wedding of Andrew Whitney and Sharon.)

What made you marry this millionaire?
(UK TV Comedy show. Mrs Merton?)

Second time around.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Susi Orbach, author of ...

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Quotations on Money

Clogs to clogs in three generations.

Money makes the world go around. (Song from the film Cabaret. Earlier origin.)

The love of money is the root of all evil. (Biblical.)

One law for the rich; another for the poor.

All that glitters is not gold.
(Shakespeare? Bible)

Micawber
Dickens

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