Shel Silverstein Quotes - Page 4

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• If you're nasty, I won't fight. If you're rough, well that's just you. If you're mean, that's alright too. Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mean, Fighting, Nasty

  Shel Silverstein, “Don't Change On My Account”

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• No Difference Small as a peanut, Big as a giant, We're all the same size When we turn off the light. Rich as a sultan, Poor as a mite, We're all worth the same When we turn off the light. Red, black or orange, Yellow or white, We all look the same When we turn off the light. So maybe the way, To make everything right Is for god to just reach out And turn off the light!

  Shel Silverstein

  Light, Yellow, White

  Shel Silverstein, “No Difference”

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• Since my fried left me,I've got nothing to do but walking.I walk to forget.I walk,I escape,I get further.My friend will not come back,now I am a marathon man.

  Shel Silverstein

  Men, Marathon, Forget

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• We're all worth the same
  When we turn off the light.

  Shel Silverstein

  Light, Turns, Turn Off

  Shel Silverstein, “No Difference”

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• The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone.

  Shel Silverstein

  Running, Halfway There, Land

  Shel Silverstein, “The Bridge”

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• I am writing these poems from inside a lion.

  Shel Silverstein

  Writing, Lions

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• Once i spoke the language of the flowers,Once i undrestand each word the caterpillar said,Once i smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings.

  Shel Silverstein

  Flower, Gossip, Secret

  Shel Silverstein, “Forgotten Language”

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• The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg,
  But I will not hatch, I will not hatch.
  For I hear all the talk of pollution and war
  As the people all shout and the airplane roar,
  So I'm staying in here where it's safe and it's warm,
  And I WILL NOT HATCH!

  Shel Silverstein

  Fear, War, Airplane

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• Somebody has to go polish the stars, They're looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the eagles and starlings and gulls Have all been complaining they're tarnished and worn, They say they want new ones we cannot afford. So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars.

  Shel Silverstein

  Stars, Eagles, Rags

  Shel Silverstein, “Somebody Has To”

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• Sometimes I get so depressed 'Bout what I haven't done. -NEVER

  Shel Silverstein

  Done, Sometimes, Havens

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• Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.

  Shel Silverstein

  Dark, Blue, Views

  Shel Silverstein, “Point Of View”

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• I said, "I'll take the T-bone steak." A soft voice mooed, "Oh wow." And I looked up and realized The waitress was a cow. I cried, "Mistake--forget the the steak. I'll take the chicken then." I heard a cluck--'twas just my luck The busboy was a hen. I said, "Okay no, fowl today. I'll have the seafood dish." Then I saw through the kitchen door The cook--he was a fish. I screamed, "Is there anyone workin' here Who's an onion or a beet? No? Your're sure? Okay then friends, A salad's what I'll eat." They looked at me. "Oh,no," they said, "The owner is a cabbage head.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mistake, Voice, Doors

  Shel Silverstein, “Strange Restaurant”

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• Pirate Dreams Needles and pins, Needles and pins, Sew me a sail to catch me the wind. Sew me a sail strong as the gale, Carpenter, bring out your hammers and nails. Hammers and nails, hammers and nails, Build me a boat to go chasing the whales. Chasing the whales, sailing the blue Find me a captain and sign me a crew. Captain and crew, captain and crew, Take me, oh take me to anywhere new.

  Shel Silverstein

  Dream, Strong, Blue

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• There's a Polar Bear In our Frigidaire-- He likes it 'cause it's cold in there. With his seat in the meat And his face in the fish And his big hairy paws In the buttery dish, He's nibbling the noodles, And munching the rice, He's slurping the soda, He's licking the ice. And he lets out a roar If you open the door. And it gives me a scare To know he's in there-- That Polary Bear In our Fridgitydaire.

  Shel Silverstein

  Doors, Ice, Giving

  Shel Silverstein, “Bear In There”

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• If you are a dreamer come in

  Shel Silverstein

  Dreamer, Ifs

  Shel Silverstein (1974). “Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings”, HarperCollins

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• would you like to hear the night i bravely fought the- no? alright

  Shel Silverstein

  Night, Alright

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

  Shel Silverstein

  Nice, Thinking, People

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• 'I don't need very much now,' said the boy, 'just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired.' 'Well,' said the tree, straightening herself up as much as she could, "well, an old stump is good for sitting and resting. Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest.'And the boy did. And the tree was happy.

  Shel Silverstein

  Book, Tired, Boys

  Shel Silverstein, “The Giving Tree”

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• He wasted his wishes on wishing.

  Shel Silverstein

  Wish

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• Each time I see the Upside-Down Man Standing in the water, I look at him and start to laugh, Although I shouldn't oughtter. For maybe in another world Another time Another town, Maybe HE is right side up And I am upside down

  Shel Silverstein

  Men, Water, Laughing

  Shel Silverstein, “Reflection”

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• 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

  Knows

  Shel Silverstein (1963). “Uncle Shelby's story of Lafcadio, the lion who shot back”

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• G'bye, I'm going out to play!

  Shel Silverstein

  Funny, Play, Bye

  Shel Silverstein, “Sick”

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• Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom? He got tickled by his mom. Wiggled and giggled and fell on the floor, . . . . And all the more that he kept gigglin', All the more folks kept ticklin'. He shrieked and screamed and rolled around, Laughed his way right out of town. Through the country down the road, He got tickled by a toad. . . . . Giggling, rolling on his back He rolled on the railroad track. Rumble, rumble, whistle, roar- Tom ain't ticklish any more.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mom, Country, Laughter

  Shel Silverstein, “Ticklish Tom”

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• I'd rather play tennis than go to the dentist.
  I'd rather play soccer than go to the doctor.
  I'd rather play Hurk than go to work.
  Hurk? Hurk? What's Hurk?
  I don't know but it MUST be better than work!

  Shel Silverstein

  Soccer, Doctors, Play

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• 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

  Tunes, Care, Littles

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