Top 180 Dr. Seuss Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Think! You can think any think that you wish...”

— Dr. Seuss

152. “Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.”

— Dr. Seuss

153. “Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.”

— Dr. Seuss

154. “Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”

— Dr. Seuss

155. “I know I am in love because I am finding it difficult to fall asleep nowadays. This is because after having you around me now I find that reality is better than dreams.”

— Dr. Seuss

156. “And that is a story that no one can beat, When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street.”

— Dr. Seuss

157. “Fame you’ll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don’t because sometimes they won’t...”

— Dr. Seuss

158. “Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.”

— Dr. Seuss

159. “I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.”

— Dr. Seuss

160. “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

161. “If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn’t show up.”

— Dr. Seuss

162. “I don’t like audiences, I prefer my mistakes in private.”

— Dr. Seuss

163. “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

164. “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

165. “A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He’s interested in what I say if I make it interesting.”

— Dr. Seuss

166. “You can’t dribble on bow ties.”

— Dr. Seuss

167. “It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn’t be there at all.”

— Dr. Seuss

168. “I’m sorry to say so but, sadly, it’s true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.”

— Dr. Seuss

169. “I said, “I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them.” I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them.”

— Dr. Seuss

170. “Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you’re not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.”

— Dr. Seuss

171. “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

172. “You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.”

— Dr. Seuss

173. “Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.”

— Dr. Seuss

174. “One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!”

— Dr. Seuss

175. “Horton, the kangaroo has sent Vlad!? Vlad? I know two Vlads. One is a cute little bunny that brings me cookies. The other is bad Vlad. Which Vlad?? Which one do you think?? Bad Vlad?? Good call.”

— Dr. Seuss

176. “Children’s reading and children’s thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.”

— Dr. Seuss

177. “Poor empty pants With nobody inside them.”

— Dr. Seuss

178. “My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn’t make it up!”

— Dr. Seuss

179. “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

180. “FICTION IS MY ADDICTION!!”

— Dr. Seuss

181. “You are you. Now, isn’t that unpleasant?”

— Dr. Seuss

182. “The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!”

— Dr. Seuss

183. “The news just came in from the County of Keck That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck. This may not seem very important, I know, but it Is, so I’m bothering telling you so.”

— Dr. Seuss

184. “In the house, and on the street, how many, many feet you meet.”

— Dr. Seuss

185. “It came without ribbions, It cames without tags, It came without packages, boxes, or bags. Christmas can’t be bought from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more...”

— Dr. Seuss

186. “He took the Who’s feast, he took the Who pudding, he took the roast beast. He cleaned out that ice box as quick as a flash. Why, the Grinch even took their last can of Who hash.”

— Dr. Seuss

187. “Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.”

— Dr. Seuss

188. “Shorth is better than length.”

— Dr. Seuss

189. “It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head.”

— Dr. Seuss

190. “Ninety percent of the children’s books patronize the child and say there’s a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don’t do that. I treat the child as an equal.”

— Dr. Seuss

191. “I speak for the trees!”

— Dr. Seuss

192. “Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.”

— Dr. Seuss

193. “This book is to be read in bed.”

— Dr. Seuss

194. “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