What is smaller?

Famous quotes containing the word smaller:

“America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they’d be smaller then these.”
—Simon Hoggart (b. 1946)

“Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

“A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)