Dr. Seuss Quotes - Page 9

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.

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

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

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

Got something new , maybe it'll work before the end of the day if that's ok .

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

Cat, you ruined mom's dress!" "Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.

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!

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

You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place.

If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.

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

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

[Latin] allows you to adore words, take them apart and find out where they came from.

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.

I don't like audiences, I prefer my mistakes in private.

I speak for the trees!

Everything stinks until it's finished.

Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard. He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard and its quick growing grass and it grows as he mows it the faster he mows it the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for his shoving mower around the hay is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!

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.

Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds. And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs. Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back.

And, now, come to this spot Where the spotlight is hot And you'll see in the spotlight A Juggling Jott Who can juggle some stuff You might think he could not... Such as twenty-two question marks, Which is a lot. Also forty-four commas And, also, one dot! That's the kind of Circus McGurkus I've got!

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.

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

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.