Walt Kelly Quotes

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Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.

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How sharper than a chile's tooth to have a thankless serpent.

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

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Ever since I heard you is got a million dollars I notice you is fraught with perspicacity.

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I'll tell you, son, the minority got us out-numbered!

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Not all segregationists are lunatics, or even dishonest men.

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Suspicion is the mother of invention / And a fishin' expedition / Needs no repetition / For the end is never new: you need a friend / and you.

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So we got fifty percent. Babe Ruth didn't do no better. — Did you mean hittin' it... or throwin' it?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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The eleventh day of the eleventh month has always seemed to me to be special. Even if the reason for it fell apart as the years went on, it was a symbol of something close to the high part of the heart. Perhaps a life that stretches through two or three wars takes its first war rather seriously, but I still think we should have kept the name "Armistice Day." Its implications were a little more profound, a little more hopeful.

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Foo, a beautiful gal wastes her time gracin' up this swamp.

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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.

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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.

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

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Sometimes I don't follow you an' so far it allus has paid off.

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

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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 tinny blast on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

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