Top 70 Shel Silverstein Quotes (2024 Update)
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Shel Silverstein Quote: “Whatever you are is all okay. I don’t like you anyway.”

51. “Whatever you are is all okay. I don’t like you anyway.”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.”

52. “Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “So I’m all of love that could make it today.”

53. “So I’m all of love that could make it today.”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “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.”

54. “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

Shel Silverstein Quote: “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.”

55. “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

Shel Silverstein Quote: “What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I’m feeling beet.”

56. “What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I’m feeling beet.”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “Magic Sandra’s seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll, Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy spied an elf, But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make myself.”

57. “Magic Sandra’s seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll, Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy spied an elf, But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make myself.”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “Teddy said it was a hat, So I put it on. Now dad is saying, “where the heck’s the toilet plunger gone?”

58. “Teddy said it was a hat, So I put it on. Now dad is saying, “where the heck’s the toilet plunger gone?”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “I can be someone’s and still be my own.”

59. “I can be someone’s and still be my own.”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “I’m making a list I’m making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness and rightness: Hello Pardon me How are you? Excuse me Bless you May I? Thank you Goodbye If you know some that I’ve forgot, Please stick them in you eye!”

60. “I’m making a list I’m making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness and rightness: Hello Pardon me How are you? Excuse me Bless you May I? Thank you Goodbye If you know some that I’ve forgot, Please stick them in you eye!”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free.”

61. “Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free.”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “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.”

62. “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

Shel Silverstein Quote: “How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ‘em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.”

63. “How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ‘em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “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.”

64. “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

Shel Silverstein Quote: “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.”

65. “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

Shel Silverstein Quote: “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.”

66. “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.”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “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.”

67. “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

Shel Silverstein Quote: “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.”

68. “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

Shel Silverstein Quote: “If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That’s enough.”

69. “If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That’s enough.”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said.”

70. “People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said.”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “If you are a dreamer come sit by my fire, for we have some flax golden tails to spin, come in, come in.”

71. “If you are a dreamer come sit by my fire, for we have some flax golden tails to spin, come in, come in.”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “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.”

72. “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

Shel Silverstein Quote: “Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.”

73. “Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “I myself do not believe in explaining anything.”

74. “I myself do not believe in explaining anything.”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “You’d better get your laugh while you’re making your point, or you won’t be doing it very long.”

75. “You’d better get your laugh while you’re making your point, or you won’t be doing it very long.”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.”

76. “Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “Eddie touched a troll.”

77. “Eddie touched a troll.”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.”

78. “Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.”

— Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein Quote: “You do something, you make it simple, and everybody else starts loading it up with deep meanings. Which is okay with me, if they want to do that. Everybody loves Rorshach tests.”

79. “You do something, you make it simple, and everybody else starts loading it up with deep meanings. Which is okay with me, if they want to do that. Everybody loves Rorshach tests.”

— Shel Silverstein

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