Dr. Seuss Quotes

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“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.”

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go…”

“Being crazy isn't enough.”

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

“You're off to great places. Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.”

“And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew.
Just go right along, you'll start happening too!”

“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
An elephant's faithful,
One hundred percent.”

“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”

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

“If you never did
You should.
These things are fun.
and Fun is good.”

“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”

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

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

“Think and wonder, wonder and think.”

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

“I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees,
Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!”

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

“I know up on top you are seeing great sights,
But down here on the bottom,
We too should have rights.”

“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.”

“There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.”

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

“Poor empty pants
With nobody inside them.”

“You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?”

“Oh the things you can find
If you don't stay behind!”

“When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.”

“Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!”

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

“Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.”

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

“We looked! Then we saw him
Step in on the mat!
We looked! And we saw him!
The Cat in the Hat!”

“I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends.
My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!”

“You want my opinion? We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.”

“If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.”

“You're a fortunate guy.
And you ought to be shouting, "How lucky am I!"”

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

“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.”

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

“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”

“Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France
Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance
To escape from the perilous pants eating plants
But your pants are safe, you’re a fortunate guy
You ought to be shouting how lucky am I”

“You are you that is truer than true”

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

“You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.”

“I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.”

“It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.”

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

“I can read in red.
I can read in blue.
I can read in pickle color too.”

“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.”

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