Occupation: Author Birth: June 2, 1929
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..
You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people….
Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imag….
And now," he continued, speaking to Milo, "where were you on the night of July 27?" "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "It's my birthda….
Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad me….
Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug.
I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit..
Ah, this is fine," he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He dusted it off, and engraved on one side were the words "WHY NOT….
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables..
You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time..
Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best..
That's the way most everyone gets here. It's really quite simple: every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusio….
You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going w….
Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going..
You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whateve….
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..
No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier….
I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," ans….
The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort..
And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer..
Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable..