The quotations of

Dr. Seuss

American children's author and cartoonist

1904–1991

12 quotes, most often on Children and Time. Part of the Writers collection.

How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
- Time
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
- Happiness
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
On becoming a writer, NY Times (May 21, 1986)
- Education
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
- Thinking
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.
- Time
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ‘till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?
- Christmas
…adults are just obsolete children, and the hell with them.
On writing for adults, as quoted in Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel (1997) by Thomas Fensch, p. 96
- Children
Fantasy is a necessary ingrediant in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.
No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
- Writing
You make ‘em, I amuse ‘em.
Statement about children, as quoted in Enter, Conversing (1962) by Clifton Fadiman, p. 108
- Children
A person’s a person, no matter how small.
Horton Hears a Who! (1954)
- Children
From there to here,
from here to there,
funny things are everywhere.
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960)
- Humor

Often credited to Dr. Seuss

Quotes often credited to Dr. Seuss that were said or written by someone else.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Bernard Baruch1870–1965Often credited to Dr. Seuss

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