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

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

A Wasn't just isn't. He just isn't present. But you ... You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

And will you succeed? Yes, you will indeed!

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.

But I've bought a big bat.
I'm all ready, you see.
Now my troubles are going
To have trouble with me!

Not here not there not anywhere!

We should strive to treat each other with common Human Decency

When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.

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

Think! You can think any think that you wish ...

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

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

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

The more you read the more places you will go,the more places you go the more things you will learn.

It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.

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

Reading can take you places you have never been before.

How did it get so late so soon?

Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to know how.

Big Z, little Z, what begins with Z? I do.
I'm a zizzer zazzer zuzz, as you can plainly see.

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't!
An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]

A life is a life no matter how small

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

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

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

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!

I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.

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

Now, I never had ever had
Troubles before,
So I said to myself,
"I don't want anymore.

It's high time you were shown
That you really don't know all there is to be known.

And I learned that are troubles
Of more than one kind
Some come from ahead
And some come from behind.

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

You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
Your heart's an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders,
You've got garlic in your soul.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

Be yourself and the people that don't mind are the people that matter.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

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

And what would you do if you met a jibboo?

Fiction Is My Addiction

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

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.

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

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

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

He should not be here, " said the fish in the pot. " he should not be here when your mother is not.

Congratulations! Today is your day!

In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!

Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.

Unless someone like you comes around, things will never change.

Don't live to please everyone. Embrace those who enjoy your company and to hell with the haters.

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

And I said to myself, "Now I really don't see
Why trubles like this have to happen to me!

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

Gertrude, behind her, again had just one ... That one little feather she had as a starter. But now that's enough, because now she is smarter.

It is fun to have fun.

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

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

life is a suscess

Shorth is better than length.

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

On and on you will hike.
And I know you'll hike far
and face up to your problems
whatever they are.

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall?
The Once-ler: Uh, down?
The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

If you want to get things you can't buy in a store, you have to do things never thought of before.

People who mind don't matter. But people who matter don't mind.

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

ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!

Here are some who like to run. They run for fun in the hot, hot sun.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

I box in yellow Gox box socks.

Sometimes a complicated question has a simple answer.

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

Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go!

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

One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!

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

Oh, the places you will go.

Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

You can't build a substantial V out of turtles!

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

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

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..

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

Everything stinks till it's finished.

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

All those Nupboards in the Cupboards they're good fun to have about. But that Nooth gush on my tooth brush ... Him I could do without.

Sometimes crazy just isn't enough.

Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.

Green eggs and ham...

There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.

You are you. Now, isn't that unpleasant?

Adults are obsolete children.