Walt Kelly Quotes

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

We have met the enemy and he is us.

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

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

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

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)

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

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

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.

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

Looking back on things, the view always improves.

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?

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

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.

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

God is not dead-He is merely unemployed.

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

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.

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

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

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

Twenty Percent of Zero is Better than Nothing.

In like a dimwit, out like a light.

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

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.