Smaller

Famous quotes containing the word smaller:

    War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    If the main timbers in the house are not straight, the smaller timbers will be unsafe; and if the smaller timbers are not straight, the house will fall.
    Chinese proverb.

    The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today.... We’re all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.
    Norman Mailer (b. 1923)