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.

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

I'll be who I am and say what I feel because people who mind don't matter and people who matter don't mind.

So, on beyond Z! It's high time you were shown That you really don't know All there is to be known.

The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be his head wasn’t screwed on just right.
It could be, perhaps his shoes were too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.

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

All Alone!
Whether you like it or not,
Alone will be something
you'll be quite a lot.

"He should not be here, " said the fish in the pot. " he should not be here when your mother is not."

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

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

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.

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.)

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

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

And what would you do if you met a jibboo?