Dr. Seuss

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

“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.”

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

“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”

“Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.”

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

“Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.”

“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.”

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

“Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!”

“People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.”

“Only you can control your future.”

“It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head.”

“You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”

“It doesn't matter what it is.What matters is what it will become.”

“The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.”

“Being crazy isn't enough.”

“Sometimes a complicated question has a simple answer.”

“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.”

“And will you succeed? Yes, you will indeed!”

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”

“When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.”

“It's a troublesome world. All the people who are in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you're lucky you're not.”

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

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

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”

“Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?”

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

“I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.”

“So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!”

“Shorth is better than length.”

“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.”

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

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”

“Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”

“Poor empty pants With nobody inside them.”

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

“I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”

“Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it vital and alive.... Virtually every page is a cliffhanger--you've got to force them to turn it."~”

“Because when a guy does something stupid once, well, that’s because he’s guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that’s usually to impress some girl.”

“And, now, come to this spot Where the spotlight is hot And you'll see in the spotlight A Juggling Jott Who can juggle some stuff You might think he could not... Such as twenty-two question marks, Which is a lot. Also forty-four commas And, also, one dot! That's the kind of Circus McGurkus I've got!”

“Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.”

“Too different from other juveniles on the market to warrant its selling.”

“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!”

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

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

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

“Everything stinks until it's finished.”

“Adults are only obsolete children.”