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You might have never thought of it (especially talking to those of us who come from the other side of the pond), but Dr. Seuss is, in fact, a very real person. Not as real as, say, Horton or Lorax, but really real, and his name is Theodor Seuss Geisel. While he wasn’t exactly a doctor, his books, illustrations, poetry, and animations doctored plenty of us into upstanding citizens guided by the right moral values. Because of him, we know our green hams, and we know our eggs, but did you know that Dr. Seuss was also famous for his political cartoons during the era of World War II? You did not? Well then, you might also be oblivious to the fact that this author was also an immensely wise person and if you need any proof, just read these Dr. Seuss quotes that we’ve rounded up.
No, these smart quotes won’t be talking about hatching an egg or putting a cat in boots, but rather about all the vital aspects of a measly thing called life. His unique perspective on individuality, relationships, love, and all the meaningful things you often break your brain thinking about will give you something to ponder on, possibly inspiring you to look at the world through a new set of eyes. Truly, if you hate the regular concept of moving quotes, then Dr. Seuss’ words will ring true like the bells of a cathedral.
Intrigued? Well then, why don’t you scroll on down below and read these inspiring quotes? Surely, you wouldn’t forget to vote for the best Dr. Seuss quotes and to share this article with your friends; there’s no need to tell you that!
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#1
“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.”
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#2
“Sometimes you will never know the value of something, until it becomes a memory.”
Steve Fischer 2 years ago
Unfortunately that is so true. Joni Mitchell said You don't know what you have until it's gone!
#3
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
#4
“Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”
Steve Fischer 2 years ago
Your books and music will tell who you are better than anything else
#5
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out.”
#6
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”
Steve Fischer 2 years ago
Again, this is so true. I could have married my true love but instead married the not-so-true love. Twice!
#7
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living—it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
#8
“To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.”
#9
“You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”
Steve Fischer 2 years ago
When we stopped reading to children and started giving them screens....
#10
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot. Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
#11
“You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.”
#12
“You know when you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
#13
“Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.”
#14
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
#15
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
#16
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”
#17
“Reading can take you places you have never been before.”
#19
“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.”
#20
“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
#21
“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.”
#22
“A person’s a person, no matter how small.”
#23
“With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.”
#25
“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.”
#26
“The storm starts, when the drops start dropping. When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.”
#27
“You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you’re lucky you’re not.”
#28
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
#29
“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!”
#31
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
#32
“Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.”
#33
“You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.”
#35
“Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.”
#36
“Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive that is youer than you.”
#37
“Kid, you’ll move mountains.”
#39
“So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!”
#40
“Poor empty pants with nobody inside them.”
#41
“Kids who have no interest in books are usually from slob parents who themselves had no interest in books.”
Piet Bourke 2 years ago
And here we are, surfing the internet instead. I actually stopped reading a book to read this.
#42
“You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may!”
#44
“And this mess is so big and so deep and so tall, we cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!”
#45
“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.”
#46
“And the turtles, of course… all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.”
#47
“When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really played.”
#48
“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.”
#49
“How did it get so late so soon? It's the 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?”
#50
“Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.”
#53
“To the world, you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.”
#54
“I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.”
#55
“You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!”
#56
“If you’d never been born, then you might be an Isn’t! An Isn’t has no fun at all. No, he didn’t!”
Anika Monosmith 2 years ago
More pro-life words to live by. May everyone who has ever contemplated suicide hear these words.
#57
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.”
#59
“Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.”
#60
“From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.”
#61
“Take every chance, drop every fear.”
#62
“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.”
#63
“Some people are much more… oh, ever so much more… oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!”
Steve Fischer 2 years ago
I always try to remember that no matter what I go through, others are going through much worse.
#64
“So be sure when you step, step with care and great tact. And remember that life is a great balancing act.”
#65
“It is fun to have fun, but you have to know how.”
#66
“Oh, the things you can find if you don’t stay behind!”
Steve Fischer 2 years ago
And the things you wished you didn't find if you had just stayed behind
#67
“I'm naive enough to believe that society will be changed by examination of ideas through books and the press and that information can prove to be greater than the dissemination of stupidity.”
#68
“Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.”
#69
“You can think about gloves. You can think about snuvs. You can think a long time about snuvs and their gloves.”
#70
“Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.”
#71
“You have to be odd to be number one.”
#72
“One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish!”
#73
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
#74
“What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more!”
#75
“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.”
#79
“It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn’t be there at all.”
#81
“Think and wonder. Wonder and think.”
#82
“You’ll never be bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do.”
#84
“You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around ”
#85
“‘Tut tut!’ said the doctor. ‘Such talk! How absurd! Your tail is just right for your kind of bird.’”
#87
“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”
#88
“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.”
#89
“Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.”
#90
“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.”
#91
“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.”
#92
“Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.”
#93
“You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so, so much to read.”
#95
“Teeth are always in style.”
#96
“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!”
#98
“They say I’m old-fashioned and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”
#99
“It is better to know how to learn than to know.”
Anika Monosmith 2 years ago
This sums up the problems with current college education pretty well.
#100
“I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ’cause you’ll play against you.”
#101
“You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”
#102
“And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!”
#103
“My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn’t make it up!”
#105
“Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‘You can do better than this.’”
#106
“You’ll be on your way up! You’ll be seeing great sights! You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.”
#107
“I sort of got thinking—it’s sort of a shame that scrambled eggs always taste always the same.”
#110
“I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”
#111
“If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too.”
Judith Zima 2 years ago
But before you do, please first think so I'm not bailing you out of the klink.
#112
“He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
Anika Monosmith 2 years ago
Almost true... The pain of being a human just hides and morphs and poisons everything from the inside out while the beast does all the outward damage.
#113
“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
#114
“Everything stinks until it’s finished.”
#115
“Oh, you liked the movie? The book is better”
#116
“Life is like a game. Playing it as if our life belongs to it but in the end, remember it is just a game.”
#117
“I have great pride in taking Dick and Jane out of most school libraries. That is my greatest satisfaction.”
#119
“And I said to myself, now I really don't see why troubles like this have to happen to me!”
#120
“A book is just like life and anything can change”
#121
“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.”
#122
“'The Lorax' book was intended to be propaganda.”
#123
“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.”
#124
“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.”
#125
“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.”
#129
“I’m telling you this ‘cause you’re one of my friends. My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!”
#131
“Oh, the places you’ll go.”
#132
“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot.”
Steve Fischer 2 years ago
"And in the end, there is one dance you'll do alone". Jackson Browne
#135
“You are you. Now isn’t that pleasant?”
#136
“You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.”
#137
“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.”
#138
“You'll meet things that will scare you right out of your pants!”
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Kusotare 2 years ago
Ted Geisel was a complicated man. He certainly taught millions of kids important lessons, but was not without his faults. Some of them were much worse than others. I'm proud to have attended a school where the library named for him looks as if he'd designed it (he didn't), but it's mixed with some animosity, too.
Kusotare 2 years ago
Ted Geisel was a complicated man. He certainly taught millions of kids important lessons, but was not without his faults. Some of them were much worse than others. I'm proud to have attended a school where the library named for him looks as if he'd designed it (he didn't), but it's mixed with some animosity, too.
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