Shel Silverstein Quotes


Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. - Shel Silverstein


Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt. - Shel Silverstein


If you're behind the times, they won't notice you. If you're right in tune with them, you're no better than they are, so they won't care much for you. Be just a little ahead of them. - 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


If you are a dreamer,come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in! - Shel Silverstein


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


I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins. - Shel Silverstein


I myself do not believe in explaining anything. - 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


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 hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you. - Shel Silverstein


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