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 SILVERSTEINHe wasted his wishes on wishing.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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And the tree was happy.
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So I’m all of the love that could make it today.
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I know a way to stay friends forever, there’s really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, and you do it.
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I keep meeting all the right people at all the wrong places.
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Everything isn’t everything.
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How much good inside a day? Depends on how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends on how much you give ’em.
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Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
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Whatever you are is all okay. I don’t like you anyway.
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He wasted his wishes on wishing.
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If you are a dreamer come in.
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And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
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And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
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Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’t, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me, Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
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She had blue skin. And so did he. He kept it hid, And so did she. They searched for blue their whole life through, Then passed right by – And never knew.
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If the track is tough and the hill is rough, thinking you can just ain’t enough.
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