“I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”

“That's just the trouble with me,I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”

“She tried her best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery; and when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried.Come, there's no use in crying like that!' said Alice to herself rather sharply.' I advise you to leave off this minute!' She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. 'But it's no use now,' thought poor Alice, 'to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!”

“Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.”

“I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.”

“I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)”