Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? ''That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.'' Said the Cat. I don't much care where -- Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

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.

''If everybody minded their own business,'' the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ''the world would go round a deal faster than it does.''

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today.

''One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice,'' said the Queen. ''When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.''

Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast.