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Walt Kelly
22 quotes
“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.”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ten Everlovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo (1959), p. 100
“Not all segregationists are lunatics, or even dishonest men.”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ten Everlovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo (1959); an aside while recounting the 1954 shooting in the US Congress public-viewing gallery. Kelly noted that the shooters were not lunatic-fringe segregationists, then added t…
“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.”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Jack Acid Society Black Book (1960)
“God is not dead — He is merely unemployed...”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A response to Time magazine's cover story of 8 April 1966, which asked, "Is God Dead?" This, in turn, came from Nietzsche's famous quote, "God is dead." It appears on page 96, the final panel in The Pogo Poop Book (1966…
“As we thrash on to a finish through the current thicket of flags and banners, we realize it is no finish at all, but a new inning. Secure in the rules, we know that, given three strikes, the truth will out.”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Equal Time for Pogo (1968)
“Looking back on things, the view always improves.”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Impollutable Pogo (1970)
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) first seen 1812 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This is derived from the famous statement of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry on the "War of 1812": "We have met the enemy and they are ours". It appeared in a "modern day" poster for the first Earth Day in April 1970, and…
“Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it’s worthwhile to prove that he is himself.”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1913–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I been readin' 'bout how maybe they is planets peopled by folks with ad-vanced brains. On the other hand, maybe we got the most brains...maybe our intellects is the universe's most ad-vanced. Either way, it's a mighty soberin' thought.”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Honolulu Advertiser (20 June 1959), cited in "Pogo on intelligent life in the universe" by Garson O'Toole, in Archive of the American Dialect Society listserver (16 February 2017), and in 'Pogo Comic on Extraterrest…
“[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.”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is we runnin' TO it or FROM it?”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ever since I heard you is got a million dollars I notice you is fraught with perspicacity.”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Foo, a beautiful gal wastes her time gracin' up this swamp.”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'll tell you, son, the minority got us out-numbered!”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So we got fifty percent. Babe Ruth didn't do no better. — Did you mean hittin' it... or throwin' it?”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1913–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Halp! My powerful brain is blowed itself up!”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1913–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Deck us all with Boston Charlie Walla Walla, Wash, and Kalamazoo! Nora's freezin' on the trolley, Swaller dollar cauliflower Alleygaroo! Don't we know archaic barrel, Lullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou. Trolley Molly don't love Harold, Boola Boola Pensacoola Hullabaloo! Bark us all bow-wows of folly, Polly wolly cracker n' too-da-loo! Hunky Dory's pop is lolly gaggin' on the wagon, Willy, folly go through! Donkey Bonny brays a carol, Antelope Cantaloup, 'lope with you! Chollie's collie barks at Barrow, Harum scarum five alarum bung-a-loo Duck us all in bowls of barley, Hinky dinky dink an' Polly Voo! Chilly Filly's name is Chollie, Chollie Filly's jolly chilly view halloo! Bark us all bow-wows of folly, Double-bubble, toyland trouble! Woof, Woof, Woof! Tizzy seas on melon collie! Dibble-dabble, scribble-scrabble! Goof, Goof, Goof!”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source