Dr. Seuss Quotes

[Latin] allows you to adore words, take them apart and find out where they came from.

And the turtles, of course ... all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.

Adults are only obsolete children.

I meant no harm I most truly did not, but I had to grow bigger so bigger I got. I biggered my factory, I biggered my roads, I biggered the wagons, I biggered the loads, of the Thneeds I shipped out I was shipping them forth from the South, to the East, to the West. To the North, I went right on biggering selling more thneeds. And I biggered my money which everyone needs.

You can think about gloves. You can think about snuvs. You can think a long time about snuvs and their gloves.

You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

You can find magic
wherever you look.
Sit back and relax,
all you need is a book.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind!

I know I am in love because I am finding it difficult to fall asleep nowadays. This is because after having you around me now I find that reality is better than dreams.

If you want to get things you can't buy in a store, you have to do things never thought of before.

One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Black fish. Blue fish. Old fish. New fish. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot of fish there are.

Be yourself and the people that don't mind are the people that matter.

People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.

It has often been said
there's so much to be read,
you never can cram
all those words in your head.
So the writer who breeds
more words than he needs
is making a chore
for the reader who reads.
That's why my belief is
the briefer the brief is,
the greater the sigh
of the reader's relief is.
And that's why your books
have such power and strength.
You publish with shorth!
(Shorth is better than length.)

There is no one alive who is youier than you

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

Congratulations! Today is your day!

Oh, the places you will go.

If you don't like me, remember it's mind over matter.
I don't mind, and you don't matter.

Sometimes a complicated question has a simple answer.

Be grateful you're not in the forest in France
Where the average young person just hasn't a chance
To escape from the perilous pants eating plants
But your pants are safe, you're a fortunate guy
You ought to be shouting how lucky am I

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go ...

Read.
Travel.
Read.
Ask.
Read.
Learn.
Read.
Connect.
Read.

You'll meet things that will scare you right out of your pants!

With banner flip-flapping,
one more you'll ride high!
Ready for anything under the sky.
Ready because you're that kind of a guy!

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked.
Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked.
But mostly they're darked.
A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin!
Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in?
How much can you lose? How much can you win?

Kid, you'll move mountains.

Oh, the jobs people work at! Out west near Hawtch-Hawtch there's a Hawtch-Hawtcher bee watcher, his job is to watch. Is to keep both his eyes on the lazy town bee, a bee that is watched will work harder you see. So he watched and he watched, but in spite of his watch that bee didn't work any harder not mawtch. So then somebody said "Our old bee-watching man just isn't bee watching as hard as he can, he ought to be watched by another Hawtch-Hawtcher! The thing that we need is a bee-watcher-watcher!". Well, the bee-watcher-watcher watched the bee-watcher. He didn't watch well so another Hawtch-Hawtcher had to come in as a watch-watcher-watcher! And now all the Hawtchers who live in Hawtch-Hawtch are watching on watch watcher watchering watch, watch watching the watcher who's watching that bee. You're not a Hawtch-Watcher you're lucky you see!

You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

And I learned that are troubles
Of more than one kind
Some come from ahead
And some come from behind.

Adults are obsolete children.

And that is a story that no one can beat,
When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street.

Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.

Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.

It is fun to have fun.

The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall?
The Once-ler: Uh, down?
The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

Don't grumble! Don't stew! Some critters are much-much, Oh, ever so much-much So muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

Oh, the places you'll go!

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

It's high time you were shown
That you really don't know all there is to be known.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]

He should not be here, " said the fish in the pot. " he should not be here when your mother is not.

ART. What's it all about? This is what ART is about…ART is when an artist looks at something…like a horse, for instance…and they see something in that horse that excites them…SO they do something about it. They tell you about it…in any one of a number of ways.

I can read in red.
I can read in blue.
I can read in pickle color too.

You can do better than this." The best slogan I can think of to leave with the kids of the U.S.A. would be "We can ... and we've got to ... do better than this.

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.

Nothing is going to change, unless someone does something soon

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't..

Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.

life is a suscess

Big Z, little Z, what begins with Z? I do.
I'm a zizzer zazzer zuzz, as you can plainly see.

Being crazy isn't enough.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

Be awesome! Be a book nut!

When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles ...
... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.

A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting.

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.

You can't build a substantial V out of turtles!

Shorth is better than length.

Poor empty pants
With nobody inside them.

Not here not there not anywhere!

And poor Mr. Bix!
Every morning at six,
poor Mr. Bix has his Borfin to fix!
It doesn't seem fair. It just doesn't seem right,
but his Borfin just seems to go shlump every night.
It shlumps in a heap, sadly needing repair.
Bix figures it's due to the local night air.
It takes him all day to un-shlump it.
And then ...
the night air comes back
and it shlumps once again!
So don't you feel blue. Don't get down in the dumps.
You're lucky you don't have a Borfin that shlumps.

Everything stinks until it's finished.

But McBean was quite wrong, I'm quite happy to say,
the Sneetches got quite a bit smarter that day.
That day, they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches,
and no kind of Sneetch is the BEST on the beaches

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed.
You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead.
Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best.
Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.
Except when you don't.
Because, sometimes, you won't.

Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter.

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat.

You are you that is truer than true

Got something new , maybe it'll work before the end of the day if that's ok .

Everything stinks till it's finished.

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

Oh, the thinks you can think!

It came without ribbions, It cames without tags, It came without packages, boxes, or bags. Christmas can't be bought from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more ...

Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.

Unless someone like you comes around, things will never change.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

A Wasn't just isn't. He just isn't present. But you ... You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

All those Nupboards in the Cupboards they're good fun to have about. But that Nooth gush on my tooth brush ... Him I could do without.

You really can't teach reading as a science. Love gets mixed up in it.

Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!

How true, how true" said the Sour Kangaroo, "And from now on, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to protect them with you!" And the Young Kangaroo in her pouch said "Me too!

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

And he, he himself ... the Grinch ... carved the roast-beast!

Now my troubles are going
To have truobles with me!

Don't give up! I believe in you all.
A person's a person, no matter how small!
And you very small persons will not have to die
If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!