All Quotes by Walt Kelly
“Not all segregationists are lunatics, or even dishonest men.”
“Suspicion is the mother of invention and you.”
“God is not dead — He is merely unemployed...”
“As we thrash on to a finish through the current thicket of flags and banners, we realize it is no finish at all, but a new inning. Secure in the rules, we know that, given three strikes, the truth will out.”
“Looking back on things, the view always improves.”
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
“Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.”
“Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it’s worthwhile to prove that he is himself.”
“The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.”
“I been readin' 'bout how maybe they is planets peopled by folks with ad-vanced brains. On the other hand, maybe we got the most brains...maybe our intellects is the universe's most ad-vanced. Either way, it's a mighty soberin' thought.”
“[After Pogo says, Eventual Porky, I figger ev'ry critter's heart's in the right place., Porky responds:] If you gotta be wrong 'bout somthin', that's 'bout the best thing they is to be wrong 'bout.”
“Is we runnin' TO it or FROM it?”
“Ever since I heard you is got a million dollars I notice you is fraught with perspicacity.”
“Foo, a beautiful gal wastes her time gracin' up this swamp.”
“I'll tell you, son, the minority got us out-numbered!”
“So we got fifty percent. Babe Ruth didn't do no better. — Did you mean hittin' it... or throwin' it?”
“Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.”
“The natural born reason we didn't git no yew-ranium when we crosses the li'l yew tree and the gee-ranium is on account of cause we didn't have no geiger counter.”
“Halp! My powerful brain is blowed itself up!”
“Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!”