Dr. Seuss citations

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“Ne pleure pas parce que c'est terminé. Souris parce que c'est arrivé.

Il vaut mieux avoir aimé et avoir perdu que de ne jamais avoir connu l’amour.”

“Vous avez des cerveaux dans votre tête. Vous avez les pieds dans vos chaussures. Vous pouvez vous orienter dans la direction de votre choix. Vous êtes le seul à bord. Et vous savez ce que vous savez.
Et VOUS êtes celui qui décidera de l’endroit où vous irez…”

“J'aime les absurdités, ça réveille les cellules du cerveau. La fantaisie est un ingrédient nécessaire à la vie.”

“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”

“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.”

“I box in yellow Gox box socks.”

“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!”

“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!"”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.”