Shel Silverstein Quotes - Page 5

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• 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

  Reading, Journey, Years

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• One sister for sale, One sister for sale, One crying and spying young sister for sale I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isnt there isnt there any One person who will buy this sister for sale This crying spying old young sister for sale.

  Shel Silverstein

  Bidding, Dollars, Pennies

  Shel Silverstein, “For Sale”

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• Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece I'm lookin' for my missin' piece Hi-dee-ho, here I go, Lookin' for my missin' piece

  Shel Silverstein

  Pieces, Missing Piece

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• At night my mind does not much care if what it thinks is here or there. It tells me stories, it invents and makes up things that don't make sense. I do not know why it does this stuff. The real world seems quite weird enough.

  Shel Silverstein

  Real, Night, Thinking

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• Beware of being the roller / When there's nothing left to roll

  Shel Silverstein

  Left

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• So what if nobody came? I’ll have all the ice cream and tea, And I’ll laugh with myself, And I’ll dance with myself, And I’ll sing, “Happy Birthday to me!

  Shel Silverstein

  Ice, Laughing, Tea

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• Rockabye Baby, in the treetop Dont you know a treetop is no safe place to rock? And who put you up there, and your cradle too? Baby, I think someone down here has got it in for you!

  Shel Silverstein

  Baby, Thinking, Rocks

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• INVISIBLE BOY And here we see the invisible boy In his lovely invisible house, Feeding a piece of invisible cheese To a little invisible mouse. Oh, what a beautiful picture to see! Will you draw an invisible picture for me?

  Shel Silverstein

  Beautiful, Boys, House

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• I made an airplane out of stone. . . I always did like staying home.

  Shel Silverstein

  Home, Airplane, Stones

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• 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 like it--one bit. Well, what do you know? It's nibblin' my toe. Oh, gee, It's up to my knee. Oh my, It's up to my thigh. Oh, fiddle, It's up to my middle. Oh, heck, It's up to my neck. Oh, dread, It's upmmmmmmmmmmffffffffff . . .

  Shel Silverstein

  Necks, Knees, Toes

  Shel Silverstein, “Boa Constrictor”

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• And the boy loved the tree.......very much. And the tree was happy.

  Shel Silverstein

  Boys, Tree

  Shel Silverstein, “The Giving Tree”

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• A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!

  Shel Silverstein

  Food, Cake, Cooking

  Shel Silverstein, “Recipe For A Hippopotamus Sandwich”

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• When I was a kid I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls, but I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me. Not that I wouldn't rather make love, but the work has become a habit.

  Shel Silverstein

  Girl, Baseball, Writing

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• So I'm all of love that could make it today.

  Shel Silverstein

  Today

  Shel Silverstein, “Love”

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• Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

  Shel Silverstein

  Humor, Comic, Visuals

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• Oh the thumb-sucker's thumb
  May look wrinkled and wet
  And withered, and white as the snow,
  But the taste of a thumb
  Is the sweetest taste yet
  (As only we thumb-sucker's know).

  Shel Silverstein

  White, Snow, Looks

  Shel Silverstein, “Thumbs”

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• Runny's Nicpic One day Runny Babbit Met little Franny Fog. He said, "Let's have a nicpic Down by the lollow hog." He brought some cutter bookies, Some teanuts and some pea. And what did Franny Fog bring? Her whole fog framily.

  Shel Silverstein

  Fog, One Day, Littles

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

  Shel Silverstein

  Long, Laughing

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• This boat that we just built is just fine - And don't try to tell us it's not The sides and the back are divine - It's the bottom I guess we forgot

  Shel Silverstein

  Trying, Sides, Boat

  Shel Silverstein, “Homemade Boat”

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• Pirate Captain Jim "Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim "But Captain Jim, I cannot swim." "Then you must steer us through the gale." "But Captain Jim, I cannot sail." "Then down with the galley slaves you go." "But Captain Jim, I cannot row." "Then you must be the pirate's clerk." "But Captain Jim, I cannot work.

  Shel Silverstein

  Pirate, Swim, Clerks

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• I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I knew there was a Thurber, a Benchley, a Price and a Steinberg. I never saw their work until I was around thirty.

  Shel Silverstein

  Work, Creating, Style

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• Eighteen luscuios scrumpitous flavors, Chocolate,Lime and Cherry Coffee,Pumpkin, Fudge-Banana, Caramel Cream and boysenberry. Rocky Road and Toasted Almond, Butterscotch,Vanilla Dip, Butter Brinkle, Apple Ripple,Coconut,and Mocha Chip, Brandy Peach and Lemon Custard. Each scoop lovely.smooth and round. Tallest cream cone in town lying there on the ground.

  Shel Silverstein

  Lying, Coffee, Apples

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• 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 to know? me who? yes, exactly! exactly what? yes, I have exactlywatt on a chain! exactly what on a chain? yes! yes what? no, exactlywatt! that's what I want to know! I told you-exactlywatt! exactly what? yes! yes what? yes it's with me. what's with you? exactlywatt-that's what with me. me who? yes! go away! knock knock...

  Shel Silverstein

  Going Away, Want, Chains

  Shel Silverstein, “The Meehoo With An Exactlywatt”

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• Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu, Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do, Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost on the way, So I'm all of the love that could make it today.

  Shel Silverstein

  Home, Flu, Today

  Shel Silverstein, “Love”

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• I've found my missin' piece So grease my knees and fleece my bees I've found my missin' piece!

  Shel Silverstein

  Grease, Pieces, Knees

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