Dr. seuss quotes

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.

When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time".You have more potential than you believe you do.Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.

Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?

Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

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.)

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

How did it get so late so soon?

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!

I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

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.

People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

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.

Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.

Only you can control your future.

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

The moon was out and I saw some sheep. I saw some sheep take a walk in their sleep. By the light of the moon, by the light of a star, They walked all night from near to far. I would never walk, I would take a car.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

Sometimes a complicated question has a simple answer.

You have to be odd to be number one.

I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam, or a ham, or a dusty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am - that's a great thing to be!

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.

Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

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.

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

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.

People who mind don't matter. But people who matter don't mind.

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.

unless someone like you comes around, things will never change.

Sometimes crazy just isn't enough.

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

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.

If you want to get things you can't buy in a store, you have to do things never thought of before.

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.

On and on you will hike. And I know you'll hike far and face up to your problems whatever they are.

Reading can take you places you have never been before.

Don't live to please everyone. Embrace those who enjoy your company and to hell with the haters.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

It is fun to have fun.

Step with care and great tact. And remember life's a great balancing act.

Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.

Congratulations! Today is your day!

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.

Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.

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

You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

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.

Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.

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.

The storm starts, when the drops start dropping. When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

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

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.

Adults are only obsolete children.

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.

It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.

My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn't make it up!

When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.

You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

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!

Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind!

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

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

When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

Today you are you! That is truer than true!

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.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

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

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

Everything stinks till it’s finished.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

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

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.

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.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Be yourself and the people that don't mind are the people that matter.

Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. Every day, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.

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.

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.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Oh, what a day. I will make it a holiday.

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

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!

Oh, the places you will go.

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

It's high time you were shown That you really don't know all there is to be known.

Think! You can think any think that you wish.

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

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

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

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 flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

A person's a person, no matter how small.

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

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

In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!

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.

It doesn't matter what it is.What matters is what it will become.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. 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.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

A life is a life no matter how small

Kid, you'll move mountains.

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

Because when a guy does something stupid once, well, that’s because he’s guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that’s usually to impress some girl.

If you don't like me, remember it's mind over matter. I don't mind, and you don't matter.

ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!