21 quotes
Looking back on things, the view always improves.
Impollutable Pogo (1970)
The eleventh day of the eleventh month has always seemed to me to be special.
Ten Everlovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo (1959)
We have met the enemy and he is us.
Pogo comic strip (1948)
Not all segregationists are lunatics, or even dishonest men.
Ten Everlovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo (1959)
Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.
Pogo comic strip (1948)
I still think we should have kept the name "Armistice Day." Its implications were a little more profound, a little more hopeful.
Ten Everlovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo (1959)
Ever since I heard you is got a million dollars I notice you is fraught with perspicacity.
Pogo comic strip (1948)
Foo, a beautiful gal wastes her time gracin' up this swamp.
Pogo comic strip (1948)
Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it’s worthwhile to prove that he is himself.
Pogo comic strip (1948)
Suspicion is the mother of invention
And a fishin' expedition
Needs no repetition
For the end is never new: you need a friend
and you.
The Jack Acid Society Black Book (1960)
I'll tell you, son, the minority got us out-numbered!
Pogo comic strip (1948)
Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.
Pogo comic strip (1948)
Halp! My powerful brain is blowed itself up!
Pogo comic strip (1948)
God is not dead — He is merely unemployed...
Is we runnin' TO it or FROM it?
Pogo comic strip (1948)
The natural born reason we didn't git no yew-ranium when we crosses the li'l yew tree and the gee-ranium is on account of cause we didn't have no geiger counter.
Pogo comic strip (1948)
I been readin' 'bout how maybe they is planets peopled by folks with ad-vanced brains. On the other hand, maybe we got the most brains...maybe our intellects is the universe's most ad-vanced. Either way, it's a mighty soberin' thought.
Pogo comic strip (1948)
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!
Pogo comic strip (1948)
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.
Equal Time for Pogo (1968)
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.
Pogo comic strip (1948)