Best 9 quotes in «phantom tollbooth quotes» category

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.

just follow that line forever," said the Mathemagician, "and when you reach the end, turn left. There you'll find the land of Infinity, where the tallest, the shortest, the biggest, the smallest, and the most and least of everything are kept." "I don't have that much time," said Milo anxiously. "isn't there a quicker way?" "Well, you might try this flight of stairs," he suggested, opening another door and pointing up."It goes there, too.

That's the way most everyone gets here. It's really quite simple: every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not. It's such an easy trip to make that I've been here hundreds of times.

Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

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 are no wrong roads to anywhere. Do you think it will rain?

Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.