Top 264 Quotes & Sayings by Dr. Seuss - Page 4

The Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars and whether they had one, or not, upon thars.

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

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

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.

I meant no harm I most truly did not, but I had to grow bigger so bigger I got. I biggered my factory, I biggered my roads, I biggered the wagons, I biggered the loads, of the Thneeds I shipped out I was shipping them forth from the South, to the East, to the West. To the North, I went right on biggering selling more thneeds. And I biggered my money which everyone needs.

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.

A life is a life no matter how small

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

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.

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

Nothing is going to change, unless someone does something soon

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

I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.

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

Cat, you ruined mom's dress!" "Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.

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

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

Be awesome! Be a book nut!

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

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."~

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

Teeth are always in style.

This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of bed all night. And when I pull them in, oh dear! My head sticks out of bed out here!

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

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!

And when you're alone there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.

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.

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

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

I know it may seem small and insignificant, but it's not about what it is, it's about what it can become. That's not a seed, any more than you're just a boy.

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

You have to be a speedy reader 'cause there's so, so much to read!

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!

Everything stinks until it's finished.

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

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

Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.

Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance To escape from the perilous pants eating plants But your pants are safe, you’re a fortunate guy You ought to be shouting how lucky am I

Got something new , maybe it'll work before the end of the day if that's ok .

He should not be here, " said the fish in the pot. " he should not be here when your mother is not.

I speak for the trees!

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.

In the house, and on the street, how many, many feet you meet.

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

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)

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.

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

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head.

A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting.

The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!

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

He took the Who’s feast, he took the Who pudding, he took the roast beast. He cleaned out that ice box as quick as a flash. Why, the Grinch even took their last can of Who hash.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.

Horton, the kangaroo has sent Vlad!' Vlad? I know two Vlads. One is a cute little bunny that brings me cookies. The other is bad Vlad. Which Vlad?' Which one do you think?' Bad Vlad?' Good call.

Bump! Bump! Bump! Did you ever ride a wump? We have a Wump with just one hump. But, we know a man called Mr. Gump. Mr Gump has a seven hump Wump. So... if you Bump! Bump! Just jump on the hump on the Wump of Gump.

[A]s you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.

Not here not there not anywhere!

Shorth is better than length.