Best Dr Seuss Quotes & Sayings

Big Z, little Z, what begins with Z? I do.
I'm a zizzer zazzer zuzz, as you can plainly see. — Dr. Seuss

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. — Dr. Seuss

That day, they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches, and no kind of Sneetch is the BEST on the beaches. The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss — Dr. Seuss

Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..'
I tell my dates: 'Don't cry because it happened, smile because it's over — Josh Stern

It's not about what it is, but about what it can become. — Dr. Seuss

Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop.' — George W. Bush

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

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. — Dr. Seuss

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 ... — Dr. Seuss

Kid, you'll move mountains. — Dr. Seuss

Don't live to please everyone. Embrace those who enjoy your company and to hell with the haters. — Dr. Seuss

Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to know how. — Dr. Seuss

Don't grumble! Don't stew! Some critters are much-much, Oh, ever so much-much So muchly much-much more unlucky than you! — Dr. Seuss

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. — Dr. Seuss

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. — Dr. Seuss

Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink? — Dr. Seuss

My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around — Dr. Seuss

This book is to be read in bed. — Dr. Seuss

I love my job. I love the pay!
~I love it more and more each day.
~I love my boss, he is the best!
~I love his boss and all the rest.

~I love my office and its location. I hate to have to go on vacation.
~I love my furniture, drab and grey, and piles of paper that grow each day!
~I think my job is swell, there's nothing else I love so well.
~I love to work among my peers, I love their leers, and jeers, and sneers.
~I love my computer and its software; I hug it often though it won't care.
~I love each program and every file, I'd love them more if they worked a while.

~I'm happy to be here. I am. I am.
~I'm the happiest slave of the Firm, I am.
~I love this work. I love these chores.
~I love the meetings with deadly bores.
~I love my job - I'll say it again - I even love those friendly men.
~Those friendly men who've come today, in clean white coats to take me away!!!!! — Dr. Seuss

Children want the same things we want.
To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted. — Dr. Seuss

You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut. — Dr. Seuss

The Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars and whether they had one, or not, upon thars. — Dr. Seuss

When people work hard at what they do the best,
We often think of them as unlike the rest.
But they aren't really different than others you meet.
Just everyday people who accomplished some feat. — Anne Emerick

I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel. — Dr. Seuss

Bump! Bump! Bump! Did you ever ride a wump? We have a Wump with just one hump. But, we know a man called Mr. Gump. Mr Gump has a seven hump Wump. So ... if you Bump! Bump! Just jump on the hump on the Wump of Gump. — Dr. Seuss

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope. — Dr. Seuss

So you're the little smart ass from Poleglass.
I wanted to point out he sounded like Dr. Seuss but bit my lip and remembered the warning the old lady gave me. — David Louden

You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left. — Dr. Seuss

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

But McBean was quite wrong, I'm quite happy to say,
the Sneetches got quite a bit smarter that day.
That day, they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches,
and no kind of Sneetch is the BEST on the beaches — Dr. Seuss

Auden? Does he rhyme? I only like poetry that rhymes. All
the best poets write in rhyme."
"Really?"
"Dr. Seuss and Shakespeare. You can't do better than that. — Shiela Jane

The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson, and to feel how the child and you are engaging in something that's really basic to the animal, which is passing on in these rhythmic ways, something that came from somewhere. — Robert Pinsky

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! — Dr. Seuss

Growing up, I loved the tale of Peter Rabbit and also books on Pippi Longstocking. Pippi was a girl who had so much fun and was very daring. My sons loved all the Dr. Seuss books — Soraya Diase Coffelt

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? — Dr. Seuss

The right constraints can lead to your very best work. My favorite example? Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat with only 236 different words, so his editor bet him he couldn't write a book with only 50 different words. Dr. Seuss came back and won the bet with Green Eggs and Ham, one of the bestselling children's books of all time. — Austin Kleon

I meant no harm I most truly did not, but I had to grow bigger so bigger I got. I biggered my factory, I biggered my roads, I biggered the wagons, I biggered the loads, of the Thneeds I shipped out I was shipping them forth from the South, to the East, to the West. To the North, I went right on biggering selling more thneeds. And I biggered my money which everyone needs. — Dr. Seuss

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."~ — Dr. Seuss

Everything stinks till it's finished. — Dr. Seuss

Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind! — Dr. Seuss

And I learned that are troubles
Of more than one kind
Some come from ahead
And some come from behind. — Dr. Seuss

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

You are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss

Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars. — Dr. Seuss

The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey! — Dr. Seuss

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

you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. Dr Seuss — Len Webster

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot! — Dr. Seuss

I speak for the trees! — Dr. Seuss

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! — Dr. Seuss

And what would you do if you met a jibboo? — Dr. Seuss

Don't give up! I believe in you all.
A person's a person, no matter how small!
And you very small persons will not have to die
If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY! — Dr. Seuss

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store. — Dr. Seuss

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