size Quotes

“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.”

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”

“I went right on biggering . . . selling more Thneeds. And I biggered my money, which everyone needs.”

“From sun in the summer. From rain when it’s fallish, I’m going to protect them. No matter how small-ish!”

“They’ve proved they ARE persons, no matter how small. And their whole world was saved by the Smallest of All!”

“The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size.”

“Changing size doesn’t change the brain. If I made you twenty-five tomorrow, Jim, your thoughts would still be boy thoughts, and it’d show! Or if they turned me into a boy of ten this instant, my brain would still be fifty and that boy would act funnier and older and weirder than any boy ever.”

You see? Size defeats us. For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe.

“He wasn’t big like Eleanor.”

“A giant teddy bear! ‘Is that Freddie?’ said Eddie. ‘What a surprise! How did you get to be this size?’ ”

“While the bear slept he gradually began to grow smaller. Inch by inch and little by little Bruce dwindled away. He kept shrinking and shriveling until he was down to the size of a possum. And still he kept shrinking, When the diminishing spell was finally finished the bear had dwindled all the way down to the size of a chipmunk.”

“Doctor De Soto, the dentist, did very good work, so he had no end of patients. Those close to his own size – moles, chipmunks, et cetera – sat in the regular dentist’s chair. Larger animals sat on the floor while Doctor De Soto stood on a ladder.”

“There was a Young Lady whose eyes Were unique as to color and size; When she opened them wide, people all turned aside, And started away in surprise.”