Dr. Seuss Quotes

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!

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

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

How did it get so late so soon?

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

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

I meant what I said and I said what I meant - An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent! Dr

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

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

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

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

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.

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.

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 are you that is truer than true

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way.

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

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

You have to be odd to be number one.

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.

My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.

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

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

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

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

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

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

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.

Shorth is better than length.

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.

Fun is good.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

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

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

Adults are obsolete children.

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