Walt Kelly Quotes

[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.

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

Halp! My powerful brain is blowed itself up!

Ever since I heard you is got a million dollars I notice you is fraught with perspicacity.

Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.

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.

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

We have met the enemy and he is us.

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.

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