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Quotes from Pogo comic strip — Walt Kelly

1913–1973 United States

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14 quotes

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Pogo comic strip (1948)

Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.

Pogo comic strip (1948)

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)

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)

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)

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)

So we got fifty percent. Babe Ruth didn't do no better. — Did you mean hittin' it... or throwin' it?

Pogo comic strip (1948)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Walt Kelly (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.