“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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Lewis Carroll 241
English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898Related quotes
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!”
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.
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.”
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”
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.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 125