The Wit and Wisdom of Dr Seuss - Second Grade Fun



The Wit and Wisdom of Dr Seuss

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.

-Theodor Seuss Geisel

How did it get so late so soon?

It's night before it's afternoon.

December is here before it's June.

My goodness how the time has flewn.

How did it get so late so soon?

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

UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot,

nothing is going to get better.

It's not.

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.

Some come from ahead and some come from behind.

But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see.

Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself, any direction you choose.

Today you are you, that is truer than true.

There is no one alive who is youer than you.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way.

If you never did, you should.

These things are fun, and fun is good.

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.

An elephant's faithful, one hundred

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs,

Is making a chore for the reader who reads.

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed!

Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed.

You do not like them.

So you say.

Try them! Try them!

And you may.

Try them and you may, I say.

And what happened then? Well...in Whoville they say,

That the Grinch's small heart Grew three sizes that day!

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

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