Walt Kelly

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Every burden is a blessing.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Strength
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
- Walt Kelly
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We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
- Walt Kelly
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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.
- Walt Kelly
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Women aren't as mere as they used to be.
- Walt Kelly
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In like a dimwit, out like a light.
- Walt Kelly
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When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember... We have met the enemy; and he is us.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Gratitude
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Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Military
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Don't believe something just because you didn't read it in the papers. Wait until you haven't seen it on television.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Believe
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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. (Porkypine)
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Intelligent
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Now is the time for all good men to come to.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Funny
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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.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Perfect
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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?
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Running
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Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Dog
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Looking back on things, the view always improves.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Views
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Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Life
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If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Writing
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There's no easy quick way out, we're gonna have to live through our whole lives, win, lose, or draw.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Winning
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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 tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Hands
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God is not dead-He is merely unemployed.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Unemployed
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What's good about March? Well, for one thing, it keeps February and April apart.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: April
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Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Real
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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.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Majority
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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.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Men
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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.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: People
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Twenty Percent of Zero is Better than Nothing.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Zero
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A parade is the worst form of transportation known to man.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Men
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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!
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Cutting
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Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Modern
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A lump in the throat is worth two on the head.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Two
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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.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Friday
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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.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Self
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Some is more equal than others, as is well known. (Tammananny Tiger)
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Well Known
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You got to be yourself, you got to discard all the bull and get YOU across ... and get what you have to say across.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Being Yourself
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You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Cutting
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Man tries to swallow meaning whole as a dog would eat his dinner.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Dog