Top 100 Dr. Seuss Quotes
#1. The more you read, the more things you will know.
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#2. So, gently, and using the greatest of care, the elephant stretched his great trunk through the
air, and he lifted the dust speck and carried it over and placed it down, safe, on a very soft
clover
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#4. I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.
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#5. People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.
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#6. I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.
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#7. A person's a person, no matter how small.
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#8. A book is just like life and anything can change
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#9. If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.
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#10. 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.
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#11. We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.
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#12. Think and wonder, wonder and think.
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#13. Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?
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#15. All those Nupboards in the Cupboards they're good fun to have about. But that Nooth gush on my tooth brush ... Him I could do without.
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#17. Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
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#18. How a plain and wagon on Mulberry Street, Grows into a story that no one can beat
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#20. I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
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#21. Now my troubles are going
To have truobles with me!
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#22. You can do better than this." The best slogan I can think of to leave with the kids of the U.S.A. would be "We can ... and we've got to ... do better than this.
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#23. And this mess is so big
And so deep and so tall,
We cannot pick it up.
There is no way at all!
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#24. Only you can control your future.
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#25. My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn't make it up!
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#26. You really can't teach reading as a science. Love gets mixed up in it.
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#27. If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.
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#28. Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.
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#29. You are you. Now, isn't that unpleasant?
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#30. The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall?
The Once-ler: Uh, down?
The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.
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#31. Cat, you ruined mom's dress!"
"Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.
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#32. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.
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#33. I said, "I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them." I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them.
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#34. A life is a life no matter how small
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#35. That day, they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches, and no kind of Sneetch is the BEST on the beaches. The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss
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#36. Children want the same things we want.
To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.
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#37. 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.
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#38. You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
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#39. It came without ribbions, It cames without tags, It came without packages, boxes, or bags. Christmas can't be bought from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more ...
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#40. I know I am in love because I am finding it difficult to fall asleep nowadays. This is because after having you around me now I find that reality is better than dreams.
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#41. A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting.
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#43. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left.
And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)
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#44. Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to know how.
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#45. Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#48. I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.
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#49. I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.
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#51. I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
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#52. 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.
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#53. Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.
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#54. You can find magic
wherever you look.
Sit back and relax,
all you need is a book.
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#55. Unless someone like you comes around, things will never change.
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#56. It doesn't matter what it is.What matters is what it will become.
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#57. You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
Your heart's an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders,
You've got garlic in your soul.
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#58. Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today.
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#59. Nothing is going to change, unless someone does something soon
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#60. Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind
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#61. Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.
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#62. Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you
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#63. If you don't like me, remember it's mind over matter.
I don't mind, and you don't matter.
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#64. Sometimes a complicated question has a simple answer.
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#65. Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.
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#66. One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Black fish. Blue fish. Old fish. New fish. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot of fish there are.
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#67. Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?
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#68. For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.
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#69. 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.
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#70. Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go!
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#71. 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.
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#72. You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]
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#73. 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.
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#74. Oh, what a day. I will make it a holiday.
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#75. 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.
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#76. Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.
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#77. 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.
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#78. All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!
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#79. 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.
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#80. Be yourself and the people that don't mind are the people that matter.
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#81. And I said to myself, "Now I really don't see
Why trubles like this have to happen to me!
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#82. Day Play We play all day. Night Fight We fight all night.
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#83. He should not be here, " said the fish in the pot. " he should not be here when your mother is not.
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#84. Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!
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#85. Not here not there not anywhere!
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#86. In the house, and on the street, how many, many feet you meet.
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#87. 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..
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#88. It's high time you were shown
That you really don't know all there is to be known.
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#89. I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.
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#90. You can think about gloves. You can think about snuvs. You can think a long time about snuvs and their gloves.
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#91. Now, I never had ever had
Troubles before,
So I said to myself,
"I don't want anymore.
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#92. Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.
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#93. When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.
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#94. Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.
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#95. Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.
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#96. You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!
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#97. In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!
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#98. If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.
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#99. Poor empty pants
With nobody inside them.
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#100. 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!
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