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You might have never thought of it (especially talking to those of us who come from the other side of the pond), but Dr. Seuss is, in fact, a very real person. Not as real as, say, Horton or Lorax, but really real, and his name is Theodor Seuss Geisel. While he wasn’t exactly a doctor, his books, illustrations, poetry, and animations doctored plenty of us into upstanding citizens guided by the right moral values. Because of him, we know our green hams, and we know our eggs, but did you know that Dr. Seuss was also famous for his political cartoons during the era of World War II? You did not? Well then, you might also be oblivious to the fact that this author was also an immensely wise person and if you need any proof, just read these Dr. Seuss quotes that we’ve rounded up. 

No, these smart quotes won’t be talking about hatching an egg or putting a cat in boots, but rather about all the vital aspects of a measly thing called life. His unique perspective on individuality, relationships, love, and all the meaningful things you often break your brain thinking about will give you something to ponder on, possibly inspiring you to look at the world through a new set of eyes. Truly, if you hate the regular concept of moving quotes, then Dr. Seuss’ words will ring true like the bells of a cathedral. 

Intrigued? Well then, why don’t you scroll on down below and read these inspiring quotes? Surely, you wouldn’t forget to vote for the best Dr. Seuss quotes and to share this article with your friends; there’s no need to tell you that!

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139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”

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139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “Sometimes you will never know the value of something, until it becomes a memory.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unfortunately that is so true. Joni Mitchell said You don't know what you have until it's gone!

#3

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”

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139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your books and music will tell who you are better than anything else

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#5

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “Why fit in when you were born to stand out.”

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#6

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Again, this is so true. I could have married my true love but instead married the not-so-true love. Twice!

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#7

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living—it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”

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#8

“To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.”

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#9

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”

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Steve Fischer
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When we stopped reading to children and started giving them screens....

#10

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot. Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”

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#11

“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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#12

“You know when you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm not in love but I have many nightmares so I'd say reality is better anyways

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#13

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.”

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#14

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”

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#15

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

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#16

“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”

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#17

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “Reading can take you places you have never been before.”

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#18

“If we do not choose, we will end up with none.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

🎶 You can choose not to decide, but you still have made a choice. 🎶

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#19

“When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.”

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#20

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

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#21

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think, and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.”

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#23

“With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.”

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#25

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “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.”

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#26

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And if you say that to fast, then sucks to be you, for your words will slur, and your face will turn blue

#27

“You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you’re lucky you’re not.”

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#28

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

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#29

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “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!”

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#30

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

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#31

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

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#32

“Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.”

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#33

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But if where you look is in a book magic is inevitable (at this point I'm writing nonsense to outdo Steve Fischer)

#34

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

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#35

“Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.”

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#36

“Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive that is youer than you.”

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#37

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “Kid, you’ll move mountains.”

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#38

“It’s not about what it is. It’s about what it can become.”

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#39

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

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#41

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “Kids who have no interest in books are usually from slob parents who themselves had no interest in books.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And here we are, surfing the internet instead. I actually stopped reading a book to read this.

#42

“You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may!”

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#43

“ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, ‘Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!”

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#44

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

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#45

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “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.”

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#46

“And the turtles, of course… all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.”

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#47

“When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really played.”

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#48

“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.”

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#49

“How did it get so late so soon? It's the night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness, how the time has flown. How did it get so late so soon?”

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#50

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.”

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#51

“Today I shall behave as if this is the day I will be remembered.”

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#52

“It doesn’t matter what it is. What matters is what it will become.”

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#53

“To the world, you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.”

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#54

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.”

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#55

“You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!”

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#56

“If you’d never been born, then you might be an Isn’t! An Isn’t has no fun at all. No, he didn’t!”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

More pro-life words to live by. May everyone who has ever contemplated suicide hear these words.

#57

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.”

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#58

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “It’s opener there in the wide-open air.”

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#59

“Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.”

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#60

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

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#61

“Take every chance, drop every fear.”

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#62

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.”

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#63

“Some people are much more… oh, ever so much more… oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always try to remember that no matter what I go through, others are going through much worse.

#64

“So be sure when you step, step with care and great tact. And remember that life is a great balancing act.”

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#65

“It is fun to have fun, but you have to know how.”

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#66

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “Oh, the things you can find if you don’t stay behind!”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And the things you wished you didn't find if you had just stayed behind

#67

“I'm naive enough to believe that society will be changed by examination of ideas through books and the press and that information can prove to be greater than the dissemination of stupidity.”

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#68

“Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.”

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#69

“You can think about gloves. You can think about snuvs. You can think a long time about snuvs and their gloves.”

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#70

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.”

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#71

“You have to be odd to be number one.”

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#72

“One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish!”

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#73

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

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#74

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more!”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait till u find out it was created for another purpose and never had anything to do with the Bible to begin with...

#75

“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.”

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#76

“I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”

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#77

“I don’t care how you go. Just get.”

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#78

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.”

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#79

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

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#80

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

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#81

“Think and wonder. Wonder and think.”

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#82

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “You’ll never be bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do.”

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#84

“You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around ”

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#85

“‘Tut tut!’ said the doctor. ‘Such talk! How absurd! Your tail is just right for your kind of bird.’”

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#86

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”

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#87

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”

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#88

“There's the yottle in the bottle, whom I do not wish to keep, but the zillow on my pillow always helps me fall asleep.”

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#89

“Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.”

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#90

“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.”

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#91

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.”

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#92

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

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#93

“You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so, so much to read.”

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#94

“Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today.”

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#95

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “Teeth are always in style.”

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#96

“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!”

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#97

“Simple it’s not, I am afraid you will find, for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.”

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#98

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

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#99

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “It is better to know how to learn than to know.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This sums up the problems with current college education pretty well.

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#100

“I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ’cause you’ll play against you.”

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#101

“You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like the squirrels wreaking havoc in the trees above my head.

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#102

“And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!”

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#103

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

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#104

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re really quite lucky.”

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#105

“Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‘You can do better than this.’”

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#106

“You’ll be on your way up! You’ll be seeing great sights! You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.”

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#107

“I sort of got thinking—it’s sort of a shame that scrambled eggs always taste always the same.”

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#108

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you.”

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#110

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

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#111

“If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But before you do, please first think so I'm not bailing you out of the klink.

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#112

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Almost true... The pain of being a human just hides and morphs and poisons everything from the inside out while the beast does all the outward damage.

#113

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

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#114

“Everything stinks until it’s finished.”

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#115

“Oh, you liked the movie? The book is better”

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#116

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “Life is like a game. Playing it as if our life belongs to it but in the end, remember it is just a game.”

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#117

“I have great pride in taking Dick and Jane out of most school libraries. That is my greatest satisfaction.”

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#118

“Don't give up now, I believe in you all!”

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#119

“And I said to myself, now I really don't see why troubles like this have to happen to me!”

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#120

“A book is just like life and anything can change”

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#121

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam or ham or a dirty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am. That's a great thing to be.”

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#122

“'The Lorax' book was intended to be propaganda.”

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#123

“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.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You should have kept out of politics from the beginning.

#124

“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.”

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#125

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “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.”

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#126

“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”

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#127

“Virtually every page is a cliffhanger—you’ve got to force them to turn it.”

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#128

“There’s no limit to how much you’ll know, depending on how far beyond zebra you go.”

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#129

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “I’m telling you this ‘cause you’re one of my friends. My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!”

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#130

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

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#131

“Oh, the places you’ll go.”

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#132

“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"And in the end, there is one dance you'll do alone". Jackson Browne

#133

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “Shorth is better than length.”

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#134

“Nothing is going to change unless someone does something soon.”

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#135

“You are you. Now isn’t that pleasant?”

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#136

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

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#137

“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.”

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#138

139 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Explain Life Wonderfully “You'll meet things that will scare you right out of your pants!”

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#139

“Not here, not there, not anywhere!”

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