56 Humpty Quotes

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Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again — Lewis Carroll

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball. — Ice Cube

I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if you're an egg. — Ricky Gervais

The Globalist Humpty Dumpty has had a great fall, and all propagandists and all the New World Order stooges and all the media whores can't put him back together again. — Alex Jones

Drop it like it's hot. — Snoop Dogg

Don't count your chickens before they egg. — Ross O'Donovan

This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh! — William Shakespeare

the shell must break before the bird can fly. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Here the hens cackle, there they lay eggs — Greek Proverbs

Snowmen fall from heaven... unassembled. — Anonymous

...we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. — Ishmael

To make an omelet you must first break some eggs. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break. — Langston Hughes

All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust. — Dale Carnegie

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. — Confucius

Short Humpty Quotes

  • Know what you're talking about. — George H. W. Bush
  • When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed? — P. D. James
  • 'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty. — Lewis Carroll
  • After a disappointing summer, Humpty Dumpty has a great fall. — Colin Mochrie
  • I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know. — Lewis Carroll
  • Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way. — Jasper Fforde

Humpty Dumpty Quotes

Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost. — Lewis Carroll

And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said. — Lewis Carroll

They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs. — Lewis Carroll

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet. — Lewis Carroll

disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again. — Charlotte Armstrong

We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again — Gayle Forman

When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to meanneither more nor less. The question is, said Alice, whether you can make words mean so many different things. The question is, said Humpty Dumpty, which is to be masterthats all. — Lewis Carroll

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. — Lewis Carroll

Politics right now is in a very dark place, and I think the only place for me is to do what I do - make films, create art, watch it as it evolves. Right now it's like Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall, and a great fall is happening. The behavior seems to be really dumb. — Robert Redford

My work life makes much less sense now than 20 years ago. It's Humpty-Dumpty-like in a way; I can't put the pieces back together. — Kiki Smith

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More Humpty Quotes

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.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all. — Lewis Carroll

'Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' 'I read it in a book,' said Alice. 'But I had some poetry repeated to me, much easier than that, by - Tweedledee, I think it was.' 'As to poetry, you know,' said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, 'I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that - ' 'Oh, it needn't come to that!' Alice hastily said, hoping to keep him from beginning. — Lewis Carroll

You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again... my asset values will disappear, my apartments will be worth a fraction of what they were, my ministers' jobs will be in peril, their security will be at risk and their women will become maids in other people's countries, foreign workers. — Lee Kuan Yew

Hickory dickory dock my daddy’s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o clock scholar blow off his legs and then watch him holler. Rockaby baby in the tree top don’t stop a bomb or you’ll probably flop. Now I lay me down to sleep my bombproof cellars good and deep but if I’m killed before I wake remember god its for your sake amen. — Dalton Trumbo

I mean, what is an un-birthday present?" A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course." Alice considered a little. "I like birthday presents best," she said at last. You don't know what you're talking about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How many days are there in a year?" Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice. And how many birthdays have you?" One. — Lewis Carroll

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