Top 100 Seuss's Quotes
#1. Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop.'
George W. Bush
#2. I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of stories where his trademark anarchy is combined with a tautness of writing that shines an affectionate yet uncompromising spotlight on some of the absurdities of human behaviour.
Giles Andreae
#3. Dr. Seuss's management masterpiece Yertle the Turtle. SCREENING
Ben Horowitz
#4. Babe, I nearly shot Skid in the ass one time because a spider fell on me while I was holding a gun," I finally managed to say. "Those things freak me right the hell out. They got eight fuckin' legs, and that ain't natural. That's some Dr. Seuss shit right there.
Joanna Wylde
#5. 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.
Dr. Seuss
#6. 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.
Dr. Seuss
#7. Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..'
I tell my dates: 'Don't cry because it happened, smile because it's over
Josh Stern
#8. I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.
Dr. Seuss
#9. I tend to basically exaggerate in life, and in writing, it's fine to exaggerate. I really enjoy overstating for the purpose of getting a laugh. For another thing, writing is easier than digging ditches. Well, actually, that's an exaggeration. It isn't.
Dr. Seuss
#10. 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.
Dr. Seuss
#11. Gertrude, behind her, again had just one ... That one little feather she had as a starter. But now that's enough, because now she is smarter.
Dr. Seuss
#12. 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.
Dr. Seuss
#13. Got something new , maybe it'll work before the end of the day if that's ok .
Dr. Seuss
#14. Had Dr. Seuss been a slightly insane pornographer, he might have written a book like this.--reviewing Nicholson Baker's House of Holes
Tom Bissell
#15. A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting.
Dr. Seuss
#16. And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day
Dr. Seuss
#17. Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.
Dr. Seuss
#18. I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.
Dave Barry
#19. I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still is. It's just such a bizarre yet true book. And I did well reading and writing as a kid throughout school. I think early on that's what made me realize what an advantage that is.
Jon Scieszka
#20. Cat, you ruined mom's dress!"
"Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.
Dr. Seuss
#21. Don't give up! I believe in you all.
A person's a person, no matter how small!
And you very small persons will not have to die
If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!
Dr. Seuss
#22. There's the yottle in the bottle, whom I do not wish to keep, but the zillow on my pillow always helps me fall asleep.
Dr. Seuss
#23. Everything stinks till it's finished.
Dr. Seuss
#24. I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam or ham or a dirty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am. That's a great thing to be.
Dr. Seuss
#25. Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.
Dr. Seuss
#26. Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.
Dr. Seuss
#27. In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!
Dr. Seuss
#28. 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's a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.
Dr. Seuss
#29. Ninety percent of the children's books patronize the child and say there's a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don't do that. I treat the child as an equal.
Dr. Seuss
#30. You have to be a speedy reader because there's so so much to read.
Dr. Seuss
#31. Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.
Dr. Seuss
#32. You can think about gloves. You can think about snuvs. You can think a long time about snuvs and their gloves.
Dr. Seuss
#33. It's high time you were shown
That you really don't know all there is to be known.
Dr. Seuss
#34. My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around
Dr. Seuss
#35. Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.
Dr. Seuss
#36. 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.
Dr. Seuss
#37. I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably ... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.
Dr. Seuss
#38. 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.
Dr. Seuss
#39. 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.
Dr. Seuss
#40. Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Dr. Seuss
#41. It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
Dr. Seuss
#42. A Wasn't just isn't. He just isn't present. But you ... You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!
Dr. Seuss
#43. 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
#44. If you don't like me, remember it's mind over matter.
I don't mind, and you don't matter.
Dr. Seuss
#45. Everything stinks until it's finished.
Dr. Seuss
#46. It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.
Dr. Seuss
#47. Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind
Dr. Seuss
#48. 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
#49. And I saw on this hill, since my eyesight's so keen, the two biggest fools that have ever been seen! And the fools that I saw were none other than you, who seem to have nothing else better to do than sit here and argue who's better than who!
Dr. Seuss
#50. 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.
Dr. Seuss
#51. Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter.
Dr. Seuss
#52. 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.
Dr. Seuss
#53. 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
#54. A person's a person, no matter how small.
Dr. Seuss
#55. 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.
Dr. Seuss
#56. It's not about what it is, but about what it can become.
Dr. Seuss
#57. Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.
Dr. Seuss
#58. And I learned that are troubles
Of more than one kind
Some come from ahead
And some come from behind.
Dr. Seuss
#59. I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another. That was my parents, who exposed me to their stories. That's how I was introduced to the whole idea of not just reading, but storytelling in general.
Christopher Meledandri
#60. [Latin] allows you to adore words, take them apart and find out where they came from.
Dr. Seuss
#61. Adults are only obsolete children.
Dr. Seuss
#62. People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.
Dr. Seuss
#63. I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.
Dr. Seuss
#64. In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.
Dr. Seuss
#65. A book is just like life and anything can change
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#67. From the shelf. Ben's stomach churned as he pulled out Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham. Kenzie would enjoy them, but had Marianna ever read those books before? Not that Dr. Seuss was literature. What
Tricia Goyer
#68. 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
Dr. Seuss
#69. The more you read, the more things you will know.
Dr. Seuss
#70. The mistake ... was attributed in part to the fact that employees called the 3-year note 'Losh' and the 5-year note 'Bosh'. The comic mixing of 'Loshes' and 'Boshes' sounded more like a Dr. Seuss children's book than a cutting-edge risk-management operation.
Frank Partnoy
#71. So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!
Dr. Seuss
#72. Congratulations! Today is your day!
Dr. Seuss
#73. So you're the little smart ass from Poleglass.
I wanted to point out he sounded like Dr. Seuss but bit my lip and remembered the warning the old lady gave me.
David Louden
#74. Read.
Travel.
Read.
Ask.
Read.
Learn.
Read.
Connect.
Read.
Dr. Seuss
#75. Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.
Dr. Seuss
#76. If you want to get things you can't buy in a store, you have to do things never thought of before.
Dr. Seuss
#77. Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.
Dr. Seuss
#78. 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
Jed McKenna
#79. Now my troubles are going
To have truobles with me!
Dr. Seuss
#80. I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
Dr. Seuss
#82. How a plain and wagon on Mulberry Street, Grows into a story that no one can beat
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#83. Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Dr. Seuss
#84. Mooo," she said ... "I mean mmmm," she moaned. Louder this time. Goddamn Dr. Seuss is ruining my sex life.
Jennifer Weiner
#87. 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.
Dr. Seuss
#89. 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.
Dr. Seuss
#90. Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?
Dr. Seuss
#91. Think and wonder, wonder and think.
Dr. Seuss
#92. 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.
Dr. Seuss
#93. 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.
Dr. Seuss
#94. the more I get to know Ray, the more I hate him. The bastard is rude, crude and lewd. He's not a good dude. Yep, Dr. Seuss could write a series of adult rhyming books about that creep.
Elle Kennedy
#95. Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
Dr. Seuss
#96. If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.
Dr. Seuss
#97. Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any
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#98. You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.
Dr. Seuss
#99. There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.
Dr. Seuss
#100. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
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