And you are almost never right about anything,' he said, pointing at the Humbug. 'and, when you are, it's usually an accident.
And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
And remember, also, added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach....
You see, continued the minister, bowing thankfully to the duke, Dictionopolis is the place where all the words in the world come from. They’re grown right here in our orchards. I didn’t know that word...
You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.
Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.
Well, almost nothing, or depending on your generosity of spirit, hardly anything, for he could hitch an ox and plough a furrow straight or thatch a roof or hone his scythe until the edge was bright an...
They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.
Slowly at first, and then in a rush, more people came to settle here and bought with them new ways and new sounds, some very beautiful and some less so. But everyone was so busy with the things that h...
It's more important to know whether there will be weather, than what the weather will be.
I never knew words could be so confusing, Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog’s ear. Only when you use a lot to say a little, answered Tock.
I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there ar...
I didn't know that I was going to have to eat my own words,' objected Milo. 'Of course, of course, everyone here does,' the king grunted. 'You should have made a tastier speech.
How can you see something that isn't there? yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,he said. For instance, if something is there, you ca...
Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you’re going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations,
Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.
Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.
Every time he thought about it he became more convinced that there was nothing that was really true and even less in which to believe. So it was simpler not to care about anything, for in that way he...
Dictionopolis is the place where all the words in the world come from. They're grown right here in our orchards.I didn't know that words grew on trees, said Milo timidly.Where did you think they grew?...