Capp Quotes

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

Al Capp

#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.

Al Capp

#3. Microfinance is an idea whose time has come.

Kofi Annan

#4. 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.

Al Capp

#5. I think it's sad when people stop dreaming, or start losing hope. Because holding onto the bonkers dream might just turn out to be the most marvellous thing you ever did.

Miranda Hart

#6. I felt I couldn't lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I'd lost the hope that I would ever be loved in just that way again.

Melissa Bank

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

Al Capp

#8. If you want to so something you've never done before, you will have to believe something you've never believed before.

Paul Clayton Gibbs

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

Al Capp

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

Al Capp

#11. It's just so hard to feel good, you know? I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)

Ellen Hopkins

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

Al Capp

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

Al Capp

#14. There's a snake hidden in the grass.

Virgil

#15. We could have all been killed -or worse, expelled.

J.K. Rowling

#16. I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.

Sarah Rees Brennan

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

Al Capp

#18. When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The Roman legionary is there, shaking his cap, or head, and Andy Capp is there, slouching in his signature working man's headgear.

Geraldine Brooks

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

Al Capp

#20. I like to say that the one thing that all people who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least tried.

Kevin Systrom

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

Al Capp

#22. 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.

Al Capp

#23. Half-caf, double-tall, non fat, whole-milk foam, bone-dry, half-pump mocha, half sugar in the raw, double cup, no lid, capp - to go.

Linda Evangelista

#24. 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.

Al Capp

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

Al Capp

#26. The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#27. 2% of the people think, 3% of the people think they think and 95% of the people would rather DIE than think

Bob Proctor

#28. No. I will never let you hurt Day like that. Not the way I've already hurt him. You're the Elector. You don't have to do anything. And if you care about the Republic, you won't risk angering the one person who the public believes in.

Marie Lu

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

Al Capp

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

Al Capp

#31. And Caitlin smiled. I Wanted to put her smile in my pocket to look at over and over

Alex Flinn

#32. If patterns of human love subtly change, all sorts of social and political atrocities can escalate.

Helen Fisher

#33. The longest day must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Harriet Beecher Stowe