Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts and died in La Jolla, California in 1991 at the age of 87. He was a writer, poet, and cartoonist best known for his children’s books, which he wrote and illustrated under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss.
Our LifeDaily team has chosen some of the best fun sayings of Dr. Seuss for your amusement.
Seuss published a total of 46 children’s books which featured imaginative characters, rhyme, and the frequent use of anapestic meter which is a particular rhythm suited to comic verse. His most-celebrated books include The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Fox in Socks and How the Grinch Stole Christmas! There have been numerous adaptations of his works including 11 television specials, four feature films, a Broadway musical, and four television series.
He also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns, most notably for Flit and Standard Oil, and as a political cartoonist for a New York City newspaper. In 1947 he won the Academy Award for a Documentary Feature which he made while working for the United States Army during the Second World war.
He would sometimes spend up to a year on a book as he was such a perfectionist. Sometimes he would reject 95% of his material until he settled on a theme. Theodor Seuss Geisel’s birthday, March 2, has been adopted as National Read Across America Day by the National Education Association.
Browse our selection of some of his sayings to understand why Dr. Seuss was so honored:
- Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
- Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
- Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
- The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
- You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
- A person’s a person, no matter how small.
- I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
- You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.
- Adults are just outdated children.
- Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.
- Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.
- Adults are obsolete children.
- You make ’em, I amuse ’em.
- I am not a consecutive writer.
So, there you have a small sample of Dr. Seuss sayings.
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