Misattributed Dr Seuss Quotes

Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..'
I tell my dates: 'Don't cry because it happened, smile because it's over ~ Josh Stern

Building Your Own Family Is Like A Contractor Without A Labour. ~ Mansah Bi Lartey

It is better to know how to learn than to know. ~ Dr. Seuss

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

The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson, and to feel how the child and you are engaging in something that's really basic to the animal, which is passing on in these rhythmic ways, something that came from somewhere. ~ Robert Pinsky

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out? ~ Dr. Seuss

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. ~ Dr. Seuss

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

Shorth is better than length. ~ Dr. Seuss

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. ~ Dr. Seuss

Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go! ~ Dr. Seuss

Ninety percent of the children's books patronize the child and say there's a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don't do that. I treat the child as an equal. ~ Dr. Seuss

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific. ~ Dr. Seuss

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. ~ Dr. Seuss

Sometimes a complicated question has a simple answer. ~ Dr. Seuss

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me. ~ Tim Burton

Being crazy isn't enough. ~ Dr. Seuss

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

But the ultimate truth is that they aren't dead, those people. The writers of books do not truly die; their characters, even the ones who throw themselves in front of trains or are killed in battle, come back to life over and over again. Books are the means to immortality: Plato lives forever, as do Dickens, and Dr. Seuss, Soames Forsyte, Jo March, Scrooge, Anna Karenina, and Vronsky. Over and over again Heathcliff wanders the moors searching for his Cathy. Over and over again Ahab fights the whale. Through them all we experience other times, other places, other lives. We manage to become much more than our own selves. The only dead are those who grow sere and shriveled within, unable to step outside their own lives and into those of others. Ignorance is death. A closed mind is catafalque. ~ Anna Quindlen

I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go, Dog. Go!,' thinking, 'Oh yeah, that's funny. I'd like to do that.' And then writing throughout school, but at the same time I was studying pre-med stuff, because my mom told me I should be a doctor. ~ Jon Scieszka

And what would you do if you met a jibboo? ~ Dr. Seuss

The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day. ~ Dr. Seuss

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

Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars. ~ Dr. Seuss

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower! ~ Jim Carrey

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

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

Teeth are always in style. ~ Dr. Seuss

So, gently, and using the greatest of care, the elephant stretched his great trunk through the
air, and he lifted the dust speck and carried it over and placed it down, safe, on a very soft
clover ~ Dr. Seuss

My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around ~ Dr. Seuss

Alessandra wrote:

To label this book "Dr. Seuss" is too much.
He never yet wrote it, nor genius it touched.
It's flat, it's pedantic, it leaves children bored,
The very things Teddy S. Geisel abhorred.
Go read some real Dr. Seuss if you wish.
Let these hand-puppet zombies drone on about fish. ~ Bonnie Worth

I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love. ~ Dr. Seuss

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

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

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

Nerd herd, focus. You're here to help the fledglings. Dour One and Dour Two aren't important," said Aphrodite.
"Dr. Seuss reference. I like it," Stark said, giving me a check-me-out-I've-always-read-books hottie grin.
Aphrodite frowned at him.
"I said focus, not flirt. ~ P.C. Cast

When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done. ~ Dr. Seuss

Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds. And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs. Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back. ~ Dr. Seuss