When I was a kid people grew on me like grass Now they’re more like sod
Now that everything is at last Out in the open People shut their eyes Not to escape the truth But to hide from their own blindne…
In order to live I can’t die (but you can) In order to live and let live I must (eventually) die
He should have said: If everything is permitted then God does not exist
If I’ve learned one thing from Pa… it’s that until I believe in God I will be enslaved to others That would have been enough! But I also learned that
If as according to us their problem is being worse than… at least they can get better But our problem
My life was about to go down the drain but the drain was clogged
The original version’s working title was The Giveth and Taketh Away Tree but Silverstein couldn’t get it published
We’ve gone from treating people as a means to an end to using them as props for pretend
Freedom looks like Total autonomy When really, it’s The deepest connection
I used to stand on the moral high ground to look myself in the eye but now that I’ve plucked it out and thrown it away
All self-help books boil down to this: You can’t fold a piece of paper more than 7 times but if you could fold it 103 times
A wise man once told me When you don’t know what to do do nothing A wise politician
Like Coke for Coca-Cola, Mr. Pibb is short for Mr. Pibb, ABD
The only way to know you’re not paranoid is to stay connected at all times so you can rest assured