Al Capp Quotes

#1. Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

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#2. Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

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#3. There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

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#4. I've learned one thing-people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest.

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#5. Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

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#6. Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

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#7. Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

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#8. Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed if necessary.

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#9. Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

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#10. Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.

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#11. What's good for General Bullmoose is good for the U.S.A.!

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#12. My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

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#13. The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

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#14. Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

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#15. The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

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#16. As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.

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