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 SILVERSTEINI’ve found my missin’ piece So grease my knees and fleece my bees I’ve found my missin’ piece.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?
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And the tree was happy.
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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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Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.
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Sometimes I get so depressed about what I haven’t done.
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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.
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He wasted his wishes on wishing.
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Many leaves one tree.
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I can be somebody’s and still be my own.
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If you are a dreamer come in.
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Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understand each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings.
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So I’m all of the love that could make it today.
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And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
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Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.
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