Top 264 Quotes & Sayings by Dr. Seuss
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Dr. Seuss.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
'The Lorax' book was intended to be propaganda.
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?
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
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 was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
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.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
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.
I am not a consecutive writer.
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!
Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.
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.
Fun is good.
You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.
Only you can control your future.
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
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.
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.
Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.
Adults are obsolete children.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
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.
Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'
Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.
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 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.
You make 'em, I amuse 'em.
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 the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Don't live to please everyone. Embrace those who enjoy your company and to hell with the haters.
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.
You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.
If you don't like me, remember it's mind over matter.
I don't mind, and you don't matter.
Be yourself and the people that don't mind are the people that matter.
Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.
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.
Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
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.
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.
People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.
Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.
Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?
Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.
You have to be odd to be number one.
Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter.
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.
I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.
You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!
It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.
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