Dr. Seuss Quotes

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss

Imagination, Life, End

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. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.
Dr. Seuss

Yourself, Direction, Shoes

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

Today, True, Alive

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

Smile, Cry, Happened

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

Christmas, Thought, Maybe

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Dr. Seuss

Someone, Nothing, Whole

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
Dr. Seuss

Time, Night, Before

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Dr. Seuss

Imagination, Try, High

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
Dr. Seuss

Good, Today, Fun

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Dr. Seuss

Teacher, Alone, Yourself

A person's a person, no matter how small.
Dr. Seuss

Person, Small, Matter

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
Dr. Seuss

Funny, Here, Everywhere

Adults are obsolete children.
Dr. Seuss

Children, Obsolete

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.
Dr. Seuss

Good, Pretty, Shape

Fun is good.
Dr. Seuss

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
Dr. Seuss

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.
Dr. Seuss

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Dr. Seuss

Great, Book, Matter

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.
Dr. Seuss

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.
Dr. Seuss

End, Try, Start

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 2, 1904

Died: September 24, 1991

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