Dr. Seuss Quotes

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

Oh, the places you will go.

It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.

Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard. He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard and its quick growing grass and it grows as he mows it the faster he mows it the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for his shoving mower around the hay is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!

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.

Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!

Adults are only obsolete children.

He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

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

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

Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

People who mind don't matter. But people who matter don't mind.

I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam, or a ham, or a dusty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am - that's a great thing to be!

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!

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 you are you! That is truer than true!

I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch there is a smaller hamlet called Über Gletch. I go there on the fourth of August every summer to get my cuckoo clock fixed. While the cuckoo is in the hospital, I wander around and talk to the people in the streets. They are very strange people, and I get my ideas from them.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

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

Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say.

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

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.

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

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!

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.

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

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

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

The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!

And what would you do if you met a jibboo?

A life is a life no matter how small

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.

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

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

You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place.

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.

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

Because when a guy does something stupid once, well, that’s because he’s guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that’s usually to impress some girl.

Think! You can think any think that you wish.