Dr. Seuss quotes:

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

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

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

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Only you can control your future.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.

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.

I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

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

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.

Step with care and great tact. And remember life's a great balancing act.

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

Adults are obsolete children.

When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

Adults are just outdated children.

Fun is good.

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

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

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!

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks."

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

You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.

Being crazy isn't enough.

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.

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.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

You can't dribble on bow ties.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

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

Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.

Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly, Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley!

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.

Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.

Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it vital and alive.... Virtually every page is a cliffhanger--you've got to force them to turn it."~

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.

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

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

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

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

How did it get so late so soon?

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!

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

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

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. Every day, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.

I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today.

And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day

I will not eat them in a house, i will not eat them with a mouse,i will not eat them in a box i will not eat them with a fox, i will not eat them here of there i will not eat them anywhere, I do not like green eggs and ham i do not like them sam i am

Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.

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

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!

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

A person's a person, no matter how small.

I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.

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

Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well, we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!

Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know how.

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

It's a troublesome world. All the people who are in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you're lucky you're not.

Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

Kid, you'll move mountains.

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

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.

You have to be odd to be number one.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

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

I said, "I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them." I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them.

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

I still climb Mount Everest just as often as I used to. I play polo just as often as I used to. But to walk down to the hardware store I find a little bit more difficult

In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!

When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.

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

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

You have to be odd to be number one

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

When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time".You have more potential than you believe you do.Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.

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.

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.

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

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'

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...

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

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

Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

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

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

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

There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

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

'The Lorax' book was intended to be propaganda.

Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.