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Quotes by Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss

“My shoe is off my foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.”

“Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.”

“Promises are only as good as the giant teddy bears they are built upon.”

“To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day withreverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a cleanmind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the UltimatePurpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on mylips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all thehours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joythat comes from work well done -- this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.”

“Narcotics cannot still the toothThat Nibbles at the soul”

“Faith without works is as dead as a doornail.”

“Thank goodness for all of the things you are not!Thank goodness youre not something someone forgot,and left all alone in some punkerish placelike a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.Thats why I say Duckie!dont grumble! dont stew!some critters are much-much,oh, ever so much-much,so muchly much-much more unlucky than you!”

“Of course drugs were fun. And thats whats so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they dont admit that. I cant say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. Theyve gotten a very bad name.”

“… [I] recall thinking that the computer would never advance much further than this. Call me naïve, but I seemed to have underestimated the universal desire to sit in a hard plastic chair and stare at a screen until your eyes cross.”

“If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.”

“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.”

“If you pull yourself away from opportunities just because of a few bad experiences you will never have any good ones”

“See, you dont have to think about doing the right thing if youre for the right thing then youll do it without thinking.”

“One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other departments. Life is one indivisible whole.”

“Dont find the time to cry for me, dont find the words to speak for me, dont find the nerve to feel for me, just get the fuck away from me”

“I am trying to figure out the exact moment my life got so fucked up.”

“Children smile on the average 400 times/day; Adults: 15 times/day. Ever wonder why?”

You know youre in love when you cant fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Dont cry because its over, smile because it happened.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.