Top 180 Dr. Seuss Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Got something new, maybe it’ll work before the end of the day if that’s ok .”

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102. “For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.”

— Dr. Seuss

103. “You can’t build a substantial V out of turtles!”

— Dr. Seuss

104. “Oh, the things you can find if you don’t stay behind!”

— Dr. Seuss

105. “Once-ler! You’re making such smogulous smoke – my poor swomee swans, why they can’t sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat.”

— Dr. Seuss

106. “Big Z, little Z, what begins with Z? I do. I’m a zizzer zazzer zuzz, as you can plainly see.”

— Dr. Seuss

107. “This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of bed all night. And when I pull them in, oh dear! My head sticks out of bed out here!”

— Dr. Seuss

108. “And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!”

— Dr. Seuss

109. “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

110. “Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”

— Dr. Seuss

111. “And will you succeed? Yes, you will indeed!”

— Dr. Seuss

112. “You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.”

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113. “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

114. “Here are some who like to run. They run for fun in the hot, hot sun.”

— Dr. Seuss

115. “And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.”

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116. “I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I’m not just a clam, or a ham, or a dusty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am – that’s a great thing to be!”

— Dr. Seuss

117. “The storm starts, when the drops start dropping When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.”

— Dr. Seuss

118. “From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.”

— Dr. Seuss

119. “So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”

— Dr. Seuss

120. “One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Black fish. Blue fish. Old fish. New fish. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot of fish there are.”

— Dr. Seuss

121. “And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch’s small heart grew three sizes that day.”

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122. “If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.”

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123. “Not here not there not anywhere!”

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124. “Be yourself and the people that don’t mind are the people that matter.”

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125. “Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!”

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126. “You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go...”

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127. “Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance To escape from the perilous pants eating plants But your pants are safe, you’re a fortunate guy You ought to be shouting how lucky am I.”

— Dr. Seuss

128. “Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly, Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley!”

— Dr. Seuss

129. “Day Play We play all day. Night Fight We fight all night.”

— Dr. Seuss

130. “You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.”

— Dr. Seuss

131. “Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.”

— Dr. Seuss

132. “Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.”

— Dr. Seuss

133. “I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”

— Dr. Seuss

134. “And what would you do if you met a jibboo?”

— Dr. Seuss

135. “Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.”

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136. “Children’s reading and children’s thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.”

— Dr. Seuss

137. “So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!”

— Dr. Seuss

138. “How did it get so late so soon?”

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139. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because in the end those who matter don’t mind and those who mind don’t matter.”

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140. “Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It’s more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.”

— Dr. Seuss

141. “Too different from other juveniles on the market to warrant its selling.”

— Dr. Seuss

142. “They say I’m old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”

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143. “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

144. “I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.”

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145. “Unslumping yourself is not easily done.”

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146. “Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say.”

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147. “Sometimes a complicated question has a simple answer.”

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148. “You are you that is truer than true.”

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149. “Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.”

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150. “The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.”

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