I want to go everywhere, look at and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough. — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
If there is a book you want to read but isn't written yet,write it. — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
It's always a nice feeling, having people think that you feel things much deeper than you're allowed to say, but this isn't… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
You don't have to shoot me," says the young lion. "I will be your rug and I will lie in front of… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Don't be dependent on anyone else. I want to go everywhere, look at, and listen to everything. You can go crazy with… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Somebody has to go polish the stars, They're looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls, but… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew.… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Knock! knock! who's there? me! me who? that's right? what's right? meehoo! that's what I want to know! what's what you want… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“I cannot go to school today" Said little Peggy Ann McKay. "I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share
Oh, I'm being eaten By a boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor, And I don't… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share
Magic Sandra’s seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll, Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing,… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share
He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share
“Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out! She'd scour the pots and scrape the pans, Candy the yams and spice the… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share
“Ol' man Simon, planted a diamond. Grew hisself a garden the likes of none. Sprouts all growin' comin' up glowin' Fruit of jewels all… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share
“Ma and God God gave us fingers--Ma says, "Use your fork." God gave us voices--Ma says, "Don't scream." Ma says eat broccoli, cereal and… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share
Ourchestra: So you haven't got a drum, just beat your belly. So I haven't got a horn-I'll play my nose. So we haven't any… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share
“Ickle me, pickle me, tickle me too never returned to the world they knew and nobody knows what happened to dear ickle me, pickle… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share
I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share
A spider lives inside my head Who weaves a strange and wondrous web Of silken threads and silver strings To catch all sorts of… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share
