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Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American author, political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books under the pen name Dr. Seuss . His work includes several of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death.

Geisel adopted his "Dr. Seuss" pen name during his university studies at Dartmouth College and the University of Oxford. He left Oxford in 1927 to begin his career as an illustrator and cartoonist for Vanity Fair, Life, and various other publications. He also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns, most notably for Flit and Standard Oil, and as a political cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM. He published his first children's book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street in 1937. During World War II, he worked in an animation department of the United States Army where he produced several short films, including Design for Death, which later won the 1947 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

After the war, Geisel focused on children's books, writing classics such as If I Ran the Zoo , Horton Hears a Who! , If I Ran the Circus , The Cat in the Hat , How the Grinch Stole Christmas! , and Green Eggs and Ham . He published over 60 books during his career, which have spawned numerous adaptations, including 11 television specials, four feature films, a Broadway musical, and four television series. He won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958 for Horton Hatches the Egg and again in 1961 for And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. Geisel's birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day, an initiative on reading created by the National Education Association.

✵ 2. March 1904 – 24. September 1991  •  Other names Dr. Seuss, Др Сјус
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Dr. Seuss Quotes

“Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say.”

Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham

Source: Green Eggs and Ham

“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.”

Dr. Seuss book Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (1973)

“One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!”

Dr. Seuss

“Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't..”

Dr. Seuss

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

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

Dr. Seuss book Hunches in Bunches

Source: Hunches in Bunches

“Horton, the kangaroo has sent Vlad!'
Vlad? I know two Vlads. One is a cute little bunny that brings me cookies. The other is bad Vlad. Which Vlad?'
Which one do you think?'
Bad Vlad?'
Good call.”

Dr. Seuss Horton Hears a Who!

Source: Horton Hears a Who!

“You oughta be thankful, a whole heaping lot,
For the places and people you're lucky you're not!”

Dr. Seuss book Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

The last sentence of this statement is often misquoted as "You oughta be thankful, a whole heaping lot, / For the people and places you're lucky you're not!"
Source: Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (1973)
Context: It’s a troublesome world. All the people who're in it
are troubled with troubles almost every minute.
You oughta be thankful, a whole heaping lot,
For the places and people you're lucky you're not!

“I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.”

Dr. Seuss The Lorax

Variant: I speak for the trees!
Source: The Lorax

“You have to be odd to be number one”

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“Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go!”

Dr. Seuss

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

“My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.”

Dr. Seuss book One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

Source: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

“Day
Play
We play all day.
Night
Fight
We fight all night.”

Dr. Seuss

Source: Hop On Pop

“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!”

Dr. Seuss

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

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

Dr. Seuss book The Cat in the Hat

Source: The Cat in the Hat (1957)

“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!”

Dr. Seuss Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990)
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

“Teeth are always in style.”

Dr. Seuss

“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

“This book is to be read in bed.”

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

Dr. Seuss book The Cat in the Hat

Source: The Cat in the Hat

“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

Source: There's a Wocket in My Pocket!

“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.”

Dr. Seuss book The Sneetches and Other Stories

Source: The Sneetches and Other Stories

“Not here not there not anywhere!”

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

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“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…”

Dr. Seuss

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

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

Dr. Seuss book Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!

Source: Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!

“Fiction Is My Addiction”

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“Did you ever fly a kite in bed?
Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head?
Did you ever milk this kind of cow?
Well, we can do it. We know how.
If you never did, you should.
These things are fun and fun is good.”

Dr. Seuss book One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

Source: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

“I box in yellow Gox box socks.”

Dr. Seuss book One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

Source: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

“How true, how true" said the Sour Kangaroo, "And from now on, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to protect them with you!"
And the Young Kangaroo in her pouch said "Me too!”

Dr. Seuss

“That's why I say, "Duckie!
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 book Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (1973)

“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.”

Dr. Seuss book How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

"Maybe Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!"
Source: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957)

“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

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

Dr. Seuss book One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960)
Variant: From there to here,
from here to there,
funny things are everywhere.
Source: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

“A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!”

Dr. Seuss book Happy Birthday to You!

Source: Happy Birthday to You!

“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

Source: How the Grinch stole Christmas! And other stories

“Shorth is better than length.”

Dr. Seuss

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”

Dr. Seuss

Variant: The more that you read,
The more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
The more places you’ll go.
Source: I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! (1978)

“Reading can take you places you have never been before.”

Dr. Seuss

“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.”

Dr. Seuss

“And today the great Yertle, that Marvelous he,
Is King of the Mud. That is all he can see.
And the turtles, of course… all the turtles are free
As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.”

Dr. Seuss

Yertle the Turtle (1958)

“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

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

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