Shel Silverstein Quotes

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Craftsmanship is something that's really going out now. The young people have no patience with craftsmanship any more. They think, therefore they am. It's not enough. You don't think, therefore you are. You do, therefore you are, or else you aren't.

Shel Silverstein
If you have to dry the dishes
(Such an awful boring chore)
If you have to dry the dishes
('Stead of going to the store)
If you have to dry the dishes
And you drop one on the floor
Maybe they won't let you
Dry the dishes anymore

Shel Silverstein
Well, my daddy left home when I was three,
And didn't leave much to Ma and me,
Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.
Now I don't blame him because he run and hid, But the meanest thing he ever did was Before he left, he went and named me Sue.

Shel Silverstein
Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.

Shel Silverstein
There's a Polar Bear
In our Frigidaire -
He likes it 'cause it's cold in there.

Shel Silverstein
Once I spoke the language of the flowers,
Once I understand each word the caterpillar said,
Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings,
And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed.

Shel Silverstein
If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If youre a pretender com sit by my fire For we have some flax golden tales to spin Come in! Come in!

Shel Silverstein
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
When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

Shel Silverstein
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
It was missing a piece. And it was not happy. So it set off in search of its missing piece. And as it rolled it sang this song - "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