Dr. Seuss Quotes

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.

Teeth are always in style.

Ninety percent of the children’s books patronize the child and say there’s a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don’t do that. I treat the child as an equal.

This book is to be read in bed.

"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.

"I said, "I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them." I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them. "

Not here not there not anywhere!

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

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

You can get so confused
that you'll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place...

The more you read, the more things you will know.

But I've bought a big bat.
I'm all ready, you see.
Now my troubles are going
To have troubles with me!

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

And what would you do if you met a jibboo?