List of Shel Silverstein Quotes

Everything Isn't Everything

Instead Of Tug O' War, Let's Play Hug O' War.

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?

I Would Hope That People, No Matter What Age, Would Find Something To Identify With In My Books, Pick One Up And Experience A Personal Sense Of Discovery. That's Great. But For Them, Not For Me.

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 Cymbals- We'll Just Slap Our Hands Together, And Though There May Be Orchestras That Sound A Little Better With Their Fancy Shiny Instruments That Cost An Awful Lot- Hey, We're Making Music Twice As Good By Playing What We've Got!

You Don't Have To Shoot Me," Says The Young Lion. "i Will Be Your Rug And I Will Lie In Front Of Your Fireplace And I Won't Move A Muscle And You Can Sit On Me And Toast All The Marshmallows You Want. I Love Marshmallows.

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.

Why Can't You See I'm A Kid', Said The Kid. Why Try To Make Me Like You? Why Are You Hurt When I Don't Cuddle? Why Do You Sigh When I Splash Through A Puddle? Why Do You Scream When I Do What I Did? Im A Kid.

Come, Boy, Sit Down. Sit Down And Rest." And The Boy Did. And The Tree Was Happy.

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.

I've Found My Missin' Piece So Grease My Knees And Fleece My Bees I've Found My Missin' Piece!

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...