Dr. Seuss Quotes

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

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.

I was saving the name of ‘Geisel’ for the Great American Novel.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

If you don’t like me, remember it’s mind over matter.
I don’t mind, and you don’t matter.

Don’t conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

You have to be odd to be number one.

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.

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn’t come out right, you’ve got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.

You make ’em, I amuse ’em.

Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.