Walt Kelly quotes:

Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon, there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he was so Sad thinking about how Unhappy he had been on Monday and how completely Mournful he would be on Wednesday ...

You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin'!

There's no easy quick way out, we're gonna have to live through our whole lives, win, lose, or draw.

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! (Churchy to Howland)

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Looking back on things, the view always improves.

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Every burden is a blessing.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it's worthwhile to prove that he is himself. (Porky Pine)

If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

Some is more equal than others, as is well known. (Tammananny Tiger)

In like a dimwit, out like a light.

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

A lump in the throat is worth two on the head.

A parade is the worst form of transportation known to man.

Don't believe something just because you didn't read it in the papers. Wait until you haven't seen it on television.

Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.

God is not dead-He is merely unemployed...

Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.

If you wants to get elected president, you'se got to think up some memoraboble homily so's school kids can be pestered into memorizin' it, even if they don't know what it means.

Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.

Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought. (Porkypine)

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.

Too soon we breast the tape and too late we realize the fun lay in the running. We deny that the end justifies the means without ever stopping to consider that for practical purposes the End and the Means are one and the same thing. If there is to be any satisfaction in life it must come in transit, for who can tell when he will be struck down in mid-method?

Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle.

Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly....

Twenty Percent of Zero is Better than Nothing.

What's good about March? Well, for one thing, it keeps February and April apart.

When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember... We have met the enemy; and he is us.

Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

You got to be yourself, you got to discard all the bull and get YOU across ... and get what you have to say across.

Man tries to swallow meaning whole as a dog would eat his dinner.