Cartoonist Quotes

And will you succeed? Yes, you will indeed!

I box in yellow Gox box socks.

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

Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

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.

Adults are only obsolete children.

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

Adults are just outdated children.

I speak for the trees!

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.

For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter.

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.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

Being crazy isn't enough.

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.

It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.

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.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

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

[A]s you partake of the world's bill of fare,that's darned good advice to follow.Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.And be careful what you swallow.

Reading can take you places you have never been before.

Oh, the places you will go.

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?

A life is a life no matter how small

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.

Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.

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

Today you are you! That is truer than true!

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

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

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

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!

The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote: stink. Stank. Stunk.

You can do better than this.” The best slogan I can think of to leave with the kids of the U.S.A. would be “We can . . . and we’ve got to . . . do better than this.

In the house, and on the street, how many, many feet you meet.

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.

Shorth is better than length.

Unslumping yourself is not easily done.

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)

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

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

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

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.

It's high time you were shownThat you really don't know all there is to be known.

You can't build a substantial V out of turtles!

If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

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

Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard. He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard and its quick growing grass and it grows as he mows it the faster he mows it the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for his shoving mower around the hay is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!

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.

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

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

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

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.