Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Dr. Seuss, pen name for Theodore Seuss Geisel
American Writer and Cartoonist who published 44 children's books, which were often characterized by imaginative characters, rhyme, and frequent use of trisyllabic meter including Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Horton Hears a Who!, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas!.
"Adults are obsolete children."
"Always be who you are, and say what you feel, because people who mind don’t matter, and people who matter don’t mind."
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
"Don't cry because it ended. Smile because it happened."
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
"Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff!"
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple"
"Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you"
"So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads."
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. "