Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on the 2nd of March, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. He was an American children’s author, political cartoonist, illustrator, poet, animator, screenwriter, and filmmaker. Throughout his career, the renowned cartoonist and writer published over 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss.
‘The Cat in the Hat’,’Green Eggs and Ham’ and ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ were among his most famous works. His works have spawned numerous adaptations, including 11 television specials, five feature films, a Broadway musical, and four television series. Dr.Seuss died of cancer on September 24, 1991, at his home in La Jolla, California, at the age of 87.
Below, you will find a collection of famous Dr. Seuss quotes and sayings.
80 Dr. Seuss Quotes About Life, Relationships & Love
“People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.” ― Dr. Seuss Quote
“You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Oh the things you can find, if you don’t stay behind!”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.” ― Dr. Seuss Quote
“In my world, everyone’s a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Only you can control your future.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“You’ll be on your way up! You’ll be seeing great sights! You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Take every chance. Drop every fear.” ― Dr. Seuss Quote
“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is You-er than You.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Don’t give up. I believe in you all.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” ― Dr. Seuss Quote
“If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“I’m afraid sometimes you’ll play lonely games too, games you can’t win because you’ll play against you.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.” ― Dr. Seuss Quote
“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“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 Quote
“There’s no limit to how much you’ll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Christmas doesn’t come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more….” ― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Just go. Go. Go! I don’t care how. You can go by foot. You can go by cow.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam I Am.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot!”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?” ― Dr. Seuss Quote
“So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Adults are just outdated children.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may!”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re really quite lucky!”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Being crazy isn’t enough.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Think and wonder, wonder and think.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.” ― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“And you very small persons will not have to die if you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Life’s too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forgive the ones who don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.” ― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” ― Dr. Seuss Quote
“I am what I am! That’s a great thing to be! If I say so my self, Happy Birthday to me!”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“It’s a troublesome world. All the people who are in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you’re lucky you’re not.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.” ― Dr. Seuss Quote
“The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“If you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you will learn. Oh, the most wonderful stuff.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“What it really said to me is how hard the people at our school work, … All of our employees who work here are working hard to do what’s right for our kids.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“We looked! Then we saw him. Step in on the mat! We looked! And we saw him! The Cat in the Hat!”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“And that is a story that no one can beat, When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.” ― Dr. Seuss Quote
“And turtles, of course… all the turtles are FREE. As turtles and, maybe, ALL creatures should be.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‘You can do better than this.’”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“A person’s a person, no matter how small.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“It is fun to have fun but you have to know how.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.” ― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Congratulations! Today is your day!”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“So be sure when you step, step with care and great tact. And remember that life’s A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you’ll move mountains.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“I’m telling you this ‘cause you’re one of my friends. My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.”― Dr. Seuss Quote
“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 Quote
“They say I’m old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”― Dr. Seuss Quote