Silverstein Quotes

What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet. — Shel Silverstein

If you are a dreamer come in — Shel Silverstein

You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long. — Shel Silverstein

Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war. — Shel Silverstein

Make it so good and so clear that it doesn't need any further explanation. — Shel Silverstein

I can be somebody's and still be my own. — Shel Silverstein

Anything is possible. Anything can be. — Shel Silverstein

Larry Silverstein has betrayed the public's trust and that of all New Yorkers. — George Pataki

So I'm all of love that could make it today. — Shel Silverstein

I made an airplane out of stone ... I always did like staying home. — Shel Silverstein

I've found my missin' piece So grease my knees and fleece my bees I've found my missin' piece! — Shel Silverstein

Sometimes I get so depressed 'Bout what I haven't done. -NEVER — Shel Silverstein

I was always prepared for success but that means that I have to be prepared for failure, too. — Shel Silverstein

I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you ... "
"You cannot roll with me," said the Big O, "but perhaps you can roll by yourself. — Shel Silverstein

And the boy loved the tree ... very much. And the tree was happy. — Shel Silverstein

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it. — Shel Silverstein

G'bye, I'm going out to play! — Shel Silverstein

I keep meeting all the right people
At all the wrong times. — Shel Silverstein

O Chid learn your ABZ's and memorize them well,
and you shall learn to talk and speak and read and write and spel — Shel Silverstein

And she loved a boy very, very much
even more than she loved herself. — Shel Silverstein

Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing
and I smile. — Shel Silverstein

Don't know where he's going but sees where he's been. — Shel Silverstein

What you've got to say, you say. — Shel Silverstein

When I am gone what will you do? Who will write and draw for you? Someone smarter
someone new? Someone better
maybe YOU! — Shel Silverstein

Many leaves one tree — Shel Silverstein

There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start. — Shel Silverstein

In a world of apples and kisses and shoes
He wasted his wishes on wishing. — Shel Silverstein

Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. — Shel Silverstein

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something. — Shel Silverstein

We can't find the cat,
We don't know where she's at,
Oh, where did she go?
Does anyone know?
Let's ask this walking hat. — Shel Silverstein

Teddy said it was a hat, So I put it on. Now dad is saying, where the heck's the toilet plunger gone? — Shel Silverstein

No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what's right for you. — Shel Silverstein

When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots? — Shel Silverstein

I've discovered a way to stay friends forever -
There's really nothing to it.
I simply tell you what to do
And you do it! — Shel Silverstein

My guess is (it will be) about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in search. — Craig Silverstein

I can be someone's and still be my own. — Shel Silverstein

everything isn't everything — Shel Silverstein

It's all the same to the clam. — Shel Silverstein

And the tree was happy — Shel Silverstein

Beware of being the roller / When there's nothing left to roll — Shel Silverstein

How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. — Shel Silverstein

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough. — Shel Silverstein

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary. — Shel Silverstein

This bridge will take you halfway there - the last few steps you will have to take yourself. — Shel Silverstein

There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV. — Shel Silverstein

I'm Reginald Clark, I'm afraid of the dark
So please do not close this book on me. — Shel Silverstein

We're all worth the same
When we turn off the light. — Shel Silverstein

People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said. — Shel Silverstein

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy. — Shel Silverstein

Underneath my outside face There's a face that none can see. A little less smiley, A little less sure, But a whole lot more like me. — Shel Silverstein

And he didn't really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere, because you really have to go somewhere, don't you? — Shel Silverstein

My beard grows down to my toes, I never wears no clothes, I wraps my hair Around my bare, And down the road I goes. — Shel Silverstein

I myself do not believe in explaining anything. — Shel Silverstein

Would you like to hear the night i bravely fought the- no? alright — Shel Silverstein

...I am writing these poems from inside a lion... — Shel Silverstein

If there is a book you want to read but isn't written yet,write it. — Shel Silverstein

Just 'cause somethin' ain't been done Don't mean it can't be did ... — Shel Silverstein

If the track is tough and the hill is rough,
THINKING you can just ain't enough! — Shel Silverstein

It's amazing the difference A bit of sky can make. — Shel Silverstein

I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it. — Shel Silverstein

The baby bat Screamed out in fright, 'Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light. — Shel Silverstein

Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before. — Shel Silverstein

He wasted his wishes on wishing. — Shel Silverstein