Dr. Seuss Quotes

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

Don't live to please everyone. Embrace those who enjoy your company and to hell with the haters.

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

If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.

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

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

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

Here are some who like to run. They run for fun in the hot, hot sun.

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.

Everything stinks until it's finished.

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

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

Being crazy isn't enough.

If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

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

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.

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.

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.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

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

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.

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?

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Sometimes a complicated question has a simple answer.

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?

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.

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

In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.

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

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

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.

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

Only you can control your future.

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

If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't! An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.

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. Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV. Except when they don't Because, sometimes they won't. I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

Shorth is better than length.

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.

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

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

Everything stinks till it’s finished.

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.

The storm starts, when the drops start dropping. When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.

Teeth are always in style.

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."~

I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees, Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please; But I also speak for the brown Barbaloots, Who frolicked and played in their Barbaloot suits, Happily eating Truffula fruits. Now, since you've chopped the trees to the ground There's not enough Truffula fruit to go 'round! And my poor Barbaloots are all feeling the crummies Because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies.

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