Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2nd, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
He in the end became one of the best-known children’s writers of the 20th century under his pen name Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss began his career in the 1920s as a cartoonist, and he wrote his first children’s book in 1936. This was the first of forty-six works he published for children.
His most famous books include Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Cat in the Hat, and The Lorax. c Dr. Seuss died in 1991 at the age of eighty-seven. He left the world his indelible spirit which is imprinted on the pages of his famous books.
Many of the following Dr. Seuss quotes are well known to children and adults for their wit, wisdom, and fun…
It goes without saying that Dr. Seuss and his genius nonsensical books have magic to them. In all his wonderful weirdness, the acclaimed children’s author puts forth wisdom that rivals Confucius and puts Socrates to shame, all while making up words and warping the rules of grammar to fit his needs. From “The Cat in the Hat” and “Green Eggs and Ham” to “Oh, the Places You’ll Go” and “The Lorax,” Dr. Seuss’s books offer children unparalleled lessons on self-acceptance, love, and positivity
Most impressive, and perhaps why the lines from his books resonate so profoundly with readers, is that they exude Seuss’s uniquely childlike sense of optimism while refusing to neglect the hard truths about life. He does what every parent aims to: he gives kids the encouragement that they can do and be anything they want in life, but the motivational punch of reality is that it will not always be easy. While the real magic comes from reading his picture books in full, these inspirational Dr. Seuss quotes will never fail to put a smile on you and your kid’s faces.
“A person’s a person, no matter how small.”
“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
“Adults are just outdated children.”
“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you will be quite a lot of!”
“Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think, and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.” — Dr. Seuss
“And the turtles, of course…all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.” ― Dr. Seuss
“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
“And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you’ll move mountains.”
“And you are very small persons will not have to die if you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!”
“ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, ‘Act swiftly impressive pachyderm!” ― Dr. Seuss
“Be awesome! Be a book nut!” – Dr. Seuss
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind do not matter and those who matter do not mind.”
“Being crazy isn’t enough.” ― Dr. Seuss
“Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well that’s because he’s a guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that’s usually to impress some girl.” ― Dr. Seuss
“Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.” – Dr. Seuss
“Christmas doesn’t come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more….” – Dr. Seuss
“Congratulations! Today is your day!”
“Day Play. We play all day. Night Fight. We fight all night.”
“Do not cry because it is over. Smile because it happened.”
“Do not give up. I believe in you all.”
“Everything stinks till it is finished.”
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
“Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.” ― Dr. Seuss
“For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.” ― Dr. Seuss
“From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.”
“He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man”
“Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.” — Dr. Seuss
“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 flown. How did it get so late so soon?”
“I am afraid sometimes you will play lonely games too, games you cannot win because you will play against you.”
“I am 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.”
“I am not a consecutive writer.”
“I am sorry to say so but, sadly it is true that bang-ups and hang-ups can happen to you.”
“I am telling you this cause you are one of my friends. My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!”
“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees have no tongues.” ― Dr. Seuss
“I am what I am! That is a great thing to be! If I say so myself, Happy Birthday to me!”
“I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.” ― Dr. Seuss
“I don’t care how you go. Just get.” — Dr. Seuss
“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I have bought a big bat. I am already you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!” — Dr. Seuss
“I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”
“I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom, we, too, should have rights.” – Dr. Seuss
“I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom, we, too, should have rights.”
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.” – Dr. Seuss
“I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.”
“I sort of got thinking—it’s sort of a shame that scrambled eggs always taste always the same.” — Dr. Seuss
“I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I will probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.”
“I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam I Am.”
“I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win cause you’ll play against you.”
“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.” ― Dr. Seuss
“I’m sorry to say so but, sadly, it’s true that bang-ups and hang-ups can happen to you.” ― Dr. Seuss
“If things start happening, do not worry, do not stew, just go right along and you will start happening too.”
“If things start happening, don’t worry. Do not stew. Just go right along and you’ll start happening too.”
“If we do not choose, we will end up with none.”
“If you had never been born, then you might be an Is not! An Is not has any fun at all. No, he did not!”
“If you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you will learn. Oh, the most wonderful stuff.”
“If you never did you should. These things are fun, and fun is good”
“In my world, everyone is a pony, and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!”
“In the places, I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.”
“It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn’t be there at all.” ― Dr. Seuss
“It is 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 are lucky you are not.”
“It is better to know how to learn than to know.”
“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.”
“It’s better to know how to learn than to know.”
“It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.” – Dr. Seuss
“It’s opener there in the wide-open air.” – Dr. Seuss
“Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.” ― Dr. Seuss
“Just tell yourself, Duckie, you are really quite lucky!”
“Kid, you’ll move mountains.” — Dr. Seuss
“Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.” — Dr. Seuss
“Life’s too short to wake up with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right, forgive the ones who do not, and believe that everything happens for a reason. 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.” – Dr. Seuss
“My trouble was I had a mind, but I couldn’t make it up!” ― Dr. Seuss
“My wonderful weapon, the Jigger-Rock Snatchem, will fling ‘em right back just as quick as we catch ‘em.”
“Not here, not there, not anywhere!” ― Dr. Seuss
“Nothing is going to change unless someone does something soon.” — Dr. Seuss
“Oh, the places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss
“Oh, the things you can find if you do not stay behind!”
“Oh, the things you can find. If you don’t stay behind!”
“Oh, the thinks you can think!”
“One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish!” ― Dr. Seuss
“Only you can control your future.”
“People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.” – Dr. Seuss
“Poor empty pants with nobody inside them.” ― Dr. Seuss
“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.”
“Reading can take you places you have never been before.” — Dr. Seuss
“Remember me and smile, for it is better to forget than to remember me and cry.”
“Shorth is better than length.” ― Dr. Seuss
“Simple it is not, I am afraid you will find, for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.”
“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 will move mountains.”
“So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!”
“So, the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
“Some people are much more… oh, ever so much more… oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!” ― Dr. Seuss
“Sometimes the questions are complicated, and the answers are simple.”
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”
“Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.”
“Take every chance. Drop every fear.” – Dr. Seuss
“Teeth are always in style.”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
“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 is a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.”
“The storm starts when the drops start dropping. When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.” ― Dr. Seuss
“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.” — Dr. Seuss
“There is no limit to how much you will know, depending on how far beyond zebra you go.”
“They say I’m old-fashioned and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” – Dr. Seuss
“Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you.”
“Think and wonder, wonder and think.”
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
“Think! You can think any Think that you wish!”
“To the world, you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.”
“Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.”
“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is You-er than You.”
“Tut tut!’ said the doctor. ‘Such talk! How absurd! Your tail is just right for your kind of bird.’” — Dr. Seuss
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot. Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
“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.”
“We looked! Then we saw him. Step in on the mat! We looked! And we saw him! The Cat in the Hat!”
“What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!” — Dr. Seuss
“What it really said to me is how hard the people at our school work, … All of our employees who work here are working hard to do what is right for our kids.”
“When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really played.” — Dr. Seuss
“When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.”
“When something bad happens, you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let is destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.”― Dr. Seuss
“When you are in a Slump, you are not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.”
“Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I am doing, I always tell myself, ‘You can do better than this.”
“Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.” ― Dr. Seuss
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
“With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.”
“Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.”
“You are never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”
“You are off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so… get on your way!”
“You are you. Now isn’t that pleasant.”
“You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.” – Dr. Seuss
“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.” — Dr. Seuss
“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”
“You do not like them. So, you say. Try them! Try them! And you may!”
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You are on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who will decide where to go…”
“You have to be a speedy reader because there is so much to read.”
“You have to be odd to be number one.”
“You know when you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around ” ― Dr. Seuss
“You make ‘me, I amuse ‘em.”
“You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you’re lucky you’re not.” – Dr. Seuss
“You will be on your way up! You will be seeing great sights! You will join the high fliers who soar to high heights.”
“You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”
“You’ll never be bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do.” — Dr. Seuss
“You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.” – Dr. Seuss
“You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.” – Dr. Seuss
“You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting so get on your way!”
“You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.” — Dr. Seuss
“You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.”
”Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you.” – Dr. Seuss
