Muddle Quote by Shel Silverstein Download Open image “Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.” — Shel Silverstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Muddle Talking
Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else. — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
You cannot understand what a person is saying unless you understand who they are arguing with. — Donald Symons Copy Share Image
In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing, in between relationship fighting for in you're explaining all is your fault and the arguments en up… — Superman Copy Share Image
No matter how many times you explain things and Me unless you change your wording I'm not going to understand — Anni Da Penguin Copy Share Image
If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you. — Ally Mbululo Copy Share Image
when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant. — Maria Edgeworth 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something. — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I'm straight, but the character was too important to me to muddle his world with my private life. As a nobody, I got away… — Gale Harold Copy Share Image
I don't think we should just 'muddle through' and ignore the question of life's meaning. Or better, perhaps, I don't think it is a… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
I think the novel is essentially a comic form (tragedy is for the theatre), not meaning by that full of jokes, but that it… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The British are proud of their ability to create a muddle and then muddle through all difficulties. I must shake the British pride: muddle… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
When water isn't rippled, it is naturally still. When a mirror isn't clouded, it is clear of itself. So the mind is not to… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image