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Quotes by Dr. Seuss - (32 quotes)

Dr. Seuss - From the Books category:

Be awesome! Be a book nut! (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Chaos category:

And this mess is so big / And so deep and so tall, / We cannot pick it up. / There is no way at all! (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Children category:

Adults are obsolete children. (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Choices category:

My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn't make it up. (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Complaining category:

Don't grumble! Don't stew! / Some critters are much-much, / Oh, ever so much-much / So muchly much-much more unlucky than you. (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Complementaries category:

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

Dr. Seuss - From the Eccentricity category:

Why fit in when you were born to stand out? (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Eccentricity category:

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Fantasy category:

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's 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. (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Fantasy category:

In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies! (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Finishing category:

Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened. (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Humour category:

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere! (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Journey category:

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... (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Memory category:

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

Dr. Seuss - From the Opportunity category:

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way. (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Optimism category:

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Plein-Air category:

It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air. (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Potential category:

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become. (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Problems category:

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! (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Questions category:

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Searching category:

Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind! (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Sincerity category:

Say what you mean and act how you feel, / because those who matter don't mind, / and those who mind don't matter. (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Solitude category:

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room... All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot! (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Success category:

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed! (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Thinking category:

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try. (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Time category:

How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Uniqueness category:

You are you and that is true, there's no one in the world who's you-er than you. (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Windows category:

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. / Some windows are lighted, 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? (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Wonder category:

Think and wonder, wonder and think. (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Words category:

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Work category:

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED. (Dr. Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - From the Writing category:

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.) (Dr. Seuss)