The Humbug

Character in The Phantom Tollbooth From: The Phantom Tollbooth

Milo's companion; pompous insect who provides comic relief and social commentary

97 quotes

"Time is relative and very important to consider."
Time
"Change is inevitable, and one must adapt to survive."
Change
"Every person has something valuable to teach and to learn."
Wisdom
"A task undertaken willingly is always easier than one forced upon you."
Motivation
"Words are such wonderful things to hide behind."
Truth
"You're in the habit of wasting time."
Time
"One must always have time for tea."
Life
"It is so easy to get lost in these mountains of words."
"One cannot always choose one's companions in such ventures."
Friendship
"It is not just learning things that is important, it is learning what to do with what you learn."
Education
"It makes no difference whether you arrive at the right place at the wrong time or the wrong place at the right time."
Philosophy
"The problem is not what you've done, but that you expect to be done with it at the moment of completion."
Perseverance
"The fact is that if you think impossible things, you begin to believe them."
Imagination
"Without variety and surprise, life loses its zest."
Happiness
"The most dangerous place is where you stop thinking."
"It is not just learning things that is important. It is learning what to do with what you learn."
Education
"Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens."
Wisdom
"Time is a precious thing, and it should never be wasted."
Time
"It's a very dangerous thing to confuse what you know with what you think you know."
Truth
"It is not just an empty country. Things have their uses."
Wisdom
"Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens."
Wisdom
"You can't just wander through life without purpose."
Motivation
"Thinking is a sort of itching in the head."
Education
"The only real waste is the waste of time."
Time
"The shortest distance between two points is a straight line."
Philosophy
"Colors and numbers are everywhere if you just look carefully."
"Learning to laugh at yourself is true wisdom."
Humor
"How very strange to see a worm driving an automobile."
Humor
"Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens."
Wisdom
"Sometimes the most obvious things are the hardest to see."
Wisdom