"If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went… - Lewis Carroll

"You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle — to get one's head cut off." pg. 199

Those locks of jet are turned to gray, And she is strange and far away That might have been mine own to-day — That might have been mine own, my dear, Through many and many a happy year — That might have sat beside me here.

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.