Dr. Seuss Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.”

“Sometimes a complicated question has a simple answer.”

“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.”

“I don't like audiences, I prefer my mistakes in private.”

“It is better to know how to learn than to know.”

“If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.”

“Today you are you! That is truer than true!”

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

“I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.”

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

“It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.”

“I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”

“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!”

“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!”

“And that is a story that no one can beat, When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street.”

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

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

“Teeth are always in style.”

“I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch there is a smaller hamlet called Über Gletch. I go there on the fourth of August every summer to get my cuckoo clock fixed. While the cuckoo is in the hospital, I wander around and talk to the people in the streets. They are very strange people, and I get my ideas from them.”

“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”

“When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time".You have more potential than you believe you do.Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.”

“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!”

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