Quotes about Meaning

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more, nor less.

I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when we use them; so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer means. So, whatever good meanings are in the book, I'm glad to accept as the meaning of the book.

Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means--for I must confess that I don't), 'Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others.

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.

When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.

meaning in it, said the King, that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. Let the jury consider their verdict.

I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least—at least I mean what I say—that's the same thing, you know.

The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.

Unimportant, of course, I meant,' the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone, 'important--unimportant-- unimportant--important--' as if he were trying which word sounded best.

Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. 'I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she could.