– narrator, Oh, the Places You’ll Go! (1990)ĥ. – narrator, Happy Birthday to You! (1959) I am what I am! That’s a great thing to be!” Or a dusty old jar of sour gooseberry jam! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Today you are you! That is truer than true! – the Cat in the Hat, in The Cat in the Hat (1957)Ģ. Why not use those instead? Here’s a sampling. There are many quotable lines that Seuss actually did say. The giveaway is the colloquial use of “awesome.” Seuss wrote lots of books and read many others, but he did not say this. Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. Seuss might agree with this sentiment, but he never said it.Ħ. We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. This is a Seussian sentiment, but he never uttered it using these words.ĥ. Why fit in when you were born to stand out? Don’t cry because it’s over… Smile because it happened. Not only did Seuss never say this, but he tended to celebrate misbehavior.ģ. Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered. ( Below: one of many graphics that spread misinformation about Seuss.
The sentiment here is congruent with Seuss’s public statements and some of his children’s books, but he never said this. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. And the historical record is all we have.ġ. Seuss never said – or, at least, there’s no record of him saying these things. So, in what will likely be a failed effort to set the record straight, here are some things that Dr. Mark Twain, Ghandi, Groucho Marx, and many others have posthumously become the authors of many ideas.īut finding something on the internet does not confirm that what you’ve found is true.
He’s far from the only aphoristic writer to be credited with phrases he didn’t coin. Ted Geisel) by reading his work… and by sharing words he neither wrote nor said. Every March 2nd, Americans celebrate the birthday of Dr.
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