Keyword: Size

Growing smaller

Never try to guess your wife's size. Just buy her anything marked ‘petite’ and hold on to the receipt.

That room was so small you couldn’t cuss a cat without gettting fur in your mouth!

The bigger the box, the bigger the things that won't fit in it.

Knee high to a grasshopper

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.


How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Crowded lifts (elevators) smell different to people with restricted growth.

I asked the Scottish Football Association if San Marino was a republic or a principality; they said it was a technicality.

Scottish football commentator

The smaller the ball used in a sport, the better the book.

So what if they're taller? We'll play big.

college basketball coach

I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today; she asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

If a thing cannot be fitted into something smaller than itself, some dope will do it.

Doesn't take too many of those to make a dozen.

He's as big as a gorilla and as strong as a gorilla; if he was as smart as a gorilla he'd be fine.

college football coach

Men can read maps better than women… cause only the male mind could conceive of one inch equalling a hundred miles.

(1952 – ) comedian, actress & writer

It’s the wrong size.

The bigger they are, the harder they hit.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it's the size of the fight in the dog.

(1890 – 1969) 34th U.S. president, U.S. Army General

If it says “one size fits all,” it doesn’t fit anyone.

The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small.