“Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
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English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898Related quotes
Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Variant: 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.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!”
Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer
From the published screenplay for "The Big Brass Ring" (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Santa Teresa Press, 1987)
Variant: If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
“Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to…”
Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.”
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 13
Context: My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.
“If you don't know where you are going you will end up somewhere else”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
Variant: If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.
Source: The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said
“If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.”
Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 125