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Dr. Seuss Quotes: 52

  • Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

  • You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

  • I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

  • You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

    Oh, The Places You'll Go!
  • Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

  • Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

    Happy Birthday to You!
  • The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

    I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
  • A person's a person, no matter how small.

    Horton Hears a Who!
  • Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It's not.

    The Lorax
  • Being crazy isn't enough.

  • Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

  • Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

  • Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

  • 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!

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

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

    Oh, The Places You'll Go!
  • So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.

    Oh, The Places You'll Go!
  • How did it get so late so soon?

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

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

  • From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

    One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
  • All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

    Oh, the Places You'll Go! and The Lorax
  • I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!

    Horton Hatches the Egg
  • 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!

    How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
  • Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

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

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

  • Only you can control your future.

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

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

    I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
  • I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

  • Be awesome! Be a book nut!

  • 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.

  • When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles......they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.

    Fox in Socks
  • 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.

  • Look at me!Look at me!Look at me NOW!It is fun to have funBut you have to know how.

    The Cat in the Hat (Deluxe Edition)
  • 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.

    Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
  • It has often been saidthere’s so much to be read,you never can cramall those words in your head.So the writer who breedsmore words than he needsis making a chorefor the reader who reads.That's why my belief isthe briefer the brief is,the greater the sighof the reader's relief is.And that's why your bookshave such power and strength.You publish with shorth!(Shorth is better than length.)

  • I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.

  • Congratulations!Today is your day.You're off to Great Places!You're off and away!

    Oh, The Places You'll Go!
  • And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!

  • 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.

  • 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."~

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

  • 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.

  • Everything stinks till it’s finished.

  • Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't..

    Oh, The Places You'll Go!
  • When you're in a Slump,you're not in for much fun.Un-slumping yourselfis not easily done.

    Oh, The Places You'll Go!
  • Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

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