Walt Kelly famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We have met the enemy and he is us.
-- Walt Kelly

#War #Enemy #Mets
Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.
-- Walt Kelly

#Real #Food #Substitutes
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

#Reality #Not Good Enough #Done
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
-- Walt Kelly

#Motivational #Motivation #Opportunity
Looking back on things, the view always improves.
-- Walt Kelly

#Views #Looking Back
What's good about March? Well, for one thing, it keeps February and April apart.
-- Walt Kelly

#April #February #March
There's no easy quick way out, we're gonna have to live through our whole lives, win, lose, or draw.
-- Walt Kelly

#Winning #Way #Easy
Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.
-- Walt Kelly

#Sight #Effort #Lost
You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin'!
-- Walt Kelly

#Cutting #Air #Want
Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.
-- Walt Kelly

#Life #Writing #Serious
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

#Majority #Well Known #Equal
God is not dead-He is merely unemployed...
-- Walt Kelly

#Unemployed
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly

#Humorous #Men #Good Man
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

#Friday #Monday #Morning
Women aren't as mere as they used to be.
-- Walt Kelly

#Used
In like a dimwit, out like a light.
-- Walt Kelly

#Light #Dimwits
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

#Perfect #Forever #Gone
If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.
-- Walt Kelly

#Writing #Letters #Nasty
Man tries to swallow meaning whole as a dog would eat his dinner.
-- Walt Kelly

#Dog #Men #Trying
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

#Hands #Enemy #Flags
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

#People #Ugly #Trends
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.
-- Walt Kelly

#Mean #Kids #School
When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember... We have met the enemy; and he is us.
-- Walt Kelly

#Gratitude #Ungrateful #Enemy

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