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“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Walt Kelly
“Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent.”
Walt Kelly
“We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.”
Walt Kelly
“Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.”
Walt Kelly
“If you can't win, don't join them; learn how to lose.”
Walt Kelly, Ten Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo
“Don't take life so serious, son...it ain't no how permanent.

--Porky Pine, June 19-24, 1950”
Walt Kelly, Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder
“You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin'! ”
Walt Kelly
tags: absurd
“In this dark, when we all talk at once, some of us must learn to whistle.”
Walt Kelly
“Looking back on things, the view always improves.”
Walt Kelly
“She touched me once
And life then stopped.
She held my hand,
My frog heart hopped.
She left my mouth
And formed a smile
With lips that promised:
“In a while.”

I look, I hope, I stand, a dunce—
Where is the one who touched me once?”
Walt Kelly, The Pogo Poop Book
“Now, really, how arch
Can you be when you march
With a sword,
With a spear?
You belong

To a curious team,
You're in the extreme,
Maybe left,
Maybe right,
Maybe wrong.”
Walt Kelly, The Pogo Poop Book
“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.”
Walt Kelly
“Scuse me—gotta hurry home—left the chillun on the stove.”
Walt Kelly, Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder
tags: pogo
“Yowpee! I pulls my brandin' irons an' comes out a-bitin' the dust—a reg'lar Hoopalong Cassowary!”
Walt Kelly, Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder
“Albert made of solid alligator—he heavy.”
Walt Kelly, Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder
tags: pogo
“We have met the enemy and it is us.”
Walt Kelly
“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
“Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle.
There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us. Forward!”
Walt Kelly

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