Quotes from Walt Kelly

We have met the enemy and they are us!

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

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

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 of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

We have met the enemy and it is us.

Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent.

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

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

If you can't win, don't join them; learn how to lose.

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

Don't take life so serious, son...it ain't no how permanent. --Porky Pine, June 19-24, 1950

In this dark, when we all talk at once, some of us must learn to whistle.

Looking back on things, the view always improves.

Oop—I is tripped.

Scuse me—gotta hurry home—left the chillun on the stove.

She touched me once And life then stopped. She held my hand, My frog heart hopped. She left my mouth And formed a smile With lips that promised: "In a while." I look, I hope, I stand, a dunce— Where is the one who touched me once?

Now, really, how arch Can you be when you march With a sword, With a spear? You belong To a curious team, You're in the extreme, Maybe left, Maybe right, Maybe wrong.

At wuntz? What HE do? What HE do? Who do? Wuntz do hoo doo? How do he do hoo doo? Once do who do? What? What!? To wit, WHAT.

Albert made of solid alligator—he heavy.

Yowpee! I pulls my brandin' irons an' comes out a-bitin' the dust—a reg'lar Hoopalong Cassowary!

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

God is not dead-He is merely unemployed.

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.

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