Beth > Beth's Quotes

“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”
― Dr. Seuss

“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
― Dr. Seuss

“There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.”
― Dr. Seuss

“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.”
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

“Poor empty pants
With nobody inside them.”
― Dr. Seuss

“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.”
― Dr. Seuss

“This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of bed all night. And when I pull them in, oh dear! My head sticks out of bed out here!”
― Dr. Seuss

“One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!”
― Dr. Seuss

“For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.”
― Dr. Seuss, Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose

“Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.”
― Dr. Seuss

“You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?”
― Dr. Seuss

“Not here not there not anywhere!”
― Dr. Seuss

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

“Where there is love there is life.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
― George Carlin

“Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here. ”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.