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?
SHEL SILVERSTEINThis 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.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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Many leaves one tree.
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Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.
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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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And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
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Sometimes I get so depressed about what I haven’t done.
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It’s all the same to the clam.
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Everything isn’t everything.
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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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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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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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I am writing these poems From inside a lion.
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If you are a dreamer come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tails to spin, come in, come in.
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There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
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But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.
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Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
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