Shel Silverstein Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

“To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.”

“I myself do not believe in explaining anything.”

“I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it.”

“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.”

“There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV.”

“He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.”