Walt Kelly Quotes

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

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#2. God is not dead-He is merely unemployed ...

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#3. 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.

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#4. Twenty Percent of Zero is Better than Nothing.

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#5. Albert made of solid alligator - he heavy.

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#6. Oop - I is tripped.

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#7. If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.

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#8. Scuse me - gotta hurry home - left the chillun on the stove.

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#9. Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

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#10. We have met the enemy and he is us.

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#11. Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

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#12. Looking back on things, the view always improves.

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#13. 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.

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#14. When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember ... We have met the enemy; and he is us.

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

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

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#17. Every burden is a blessing.

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

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

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#20. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

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

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#22. What's good about March? Well, for one thing, it keeps February and April apart.

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#23. Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought. (Porkypine)

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#24. Don't take life so serious, son ... it ain't no how permanent.

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#25. 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.

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#26. Man tries to swallow meaning whole as a dog would eat his dinner.

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

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#28. In like a dimwit, out like a light.

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

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#30. We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

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#31. 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 ...

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#32. 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.

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