Dr. Seuss: Trending quotes (page 7)

“So…
be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray
or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea,
you're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So… get on your way!”

“For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.”

“The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house
All that cold, cold, wet day.”

“Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today.”

“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!”

“Cat, you ruined mom's dress!"
"Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.”

“Teeth are always in style.”

“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.”

“This book is to be read in bed.”

“He should not be here, " said the fish in the pot. " he should not be here when your mother is not.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Not here not there not anywhere!”

“If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.”

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

“You can get so confused
that you'll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place…”

“And what would you do if you met a jibboo?”

“But I've bought a big bat.
I'm all ready, you see.
Now my troubles are going
To have troubles with me!”

“Fiction Is My Addiction”