Today’s peace movement, in a nutsh… Do what we do Not what we say And we say we come in peace Because we’re mostly peaceful

A leader attracts a following The following attracts a crowd The crowd mobs the leader The leader forms a mob The mob goes mental

If you count the rings on a tree stump it will tell you the cost of doing business

Male materialists rarely make for marriage material because in their insistence that life’s not fair they further insist

I know the world is round from experience: I ran from the truth for so long that I ran smack into it

There’s equality And there’s e-quality You know the former when you see i… You know the latter when it sees y…

Somewhere between 27% and 53% of… none of which students can legally… is wasted Let’s split the difference and call it 40%

God is the only Subject Who see things objectively So, God’s object Is to change the subject And God knows that, like Him, we…

The original version’s working title was The Giveth and Taketh Away Tree but Silverstein couldn’t get it published

I may not be the man who has everything but I’m the man who knows what to get for the man who has everything

You don’t have to believe in God But if you don’t I believe you will hit a wall That wall is the limit of your thi… Since you will only be able to go

When they start to call you clear-eyed it just means you’re a cynic whose time has come

Our central moral sentiment– that doing the right thing is its… hasn’t done us much good because through it we live in deni… that in this world

At the risk of defeating myself I’ll say it in vain: Love and aggression are sutured by pain making war and peace