Dr. Seuss

Country United States
Born Wednesday, 02 March 1904
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Quotes 119
Dr. Seuss
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“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?” Uncategorized
“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.” Uncategorized
"You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.” Uncategorized
“Don't give up. I believe in you all. A person's a person no matter how small.” Uncategorized
“Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well that’s because he’s a guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that’s usually to impress some girl.” Uncategorized
“For people like this life is just about stuff. Having more than your neighbor and never enough. For these types of folks it's all about fortune and fame. What pays off is good, what does not is lame. So they don't and they won't and they can't understand. It's wisdom, not money that makes life grand.” Uncategorized
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.” Uncategorized
“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.” Uncategorized
“And the turtles, of course… All the turtles are free As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.” Uncategorized
“And he, he himself...the Grinch.carved the roast-beast!” Uncategorized
“Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.” Uncategorized
“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.” Uncategorized
“Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.” Uncategorized
“You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.” Uncategorized
“You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.” Uncategorized
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.” Uncategorized
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!” Uncategorized
“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!” Uncategorized
“And today the great Yertle, that Marvelous he, Is king of the Mud. That is all he can see. And the turtles of course... all the turtles are free As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.” Uncategorized
“Shorth is better than length.” Uncategorized