Light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second…So why are the afternoons so long? – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts, Sally Brown in school report.
Each generation must be able to blame the previous generation for its problems. It doesn’t solve anything, but it makes us all feel better. – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts, Lucy van Pelt.
Charlie Brown: Life is just too much for me. I’ve been confused right from the day I was born. I think the whole trouble is that we’re thrown into life too fast… we’re not really prepared. Linus van Pelt: What did you want… a chance to warm up first? – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts.
Charlie Brown: Well Snoopy, what are your plans for today? Snoopy: Plans? I hadn’t even thought about it. But I suppose I’ll sleep a little this morning. Then this afternoon I’ll take a short nap and later on I’ll try to get some more sleep. Those are good plans! – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts.
Schroder: Buying records cheers me up. Whenever I feel low I buy some new records. I was so depressed today I bought Mendelssohn’s violin concerto and Handel’s Ode for St Cecilia’s Day. Lucy van Pelt: Wow! How depressed can you get! – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts.
My name is Sally Brown and I hate school. – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts. Sally Brown to one of her teachers, who immediately bursts into tears.
I’m too feminine for this game! – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts, Lucy van Pelt, after kicking a football backwards over her own head.
Brothers and sisters should never be in the same family. – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts, Linus van Pelt.
These five fingers: individually they’re nothing, but when I curl them together like this into a single unit, they form a weapon that is terrible to behold! – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts, Lucy van Pelt.
Lucy van Pelt: Sometimes I wonder how you can stand being just a dog… Snoopy: You play with the cards you’re dealt…Whatever that means. – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts.
Has It Ever Occurred to You That You Might Be Wrong. – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts, Snoopy’s title for book on theology.
I could run the whole world right here from under my bed! – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts, Rerun van Pelt.
Linus van Pelt: You know what Snoopy? I don’t understand people. No matter how hard I try, I just don’t understand them! Snoopy: I know how he feels. I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I just let them try to understand me! – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts.
I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too. – Charles M. Schulz
A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself. – Charles M. Schulz
It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. – Charles M. Schulz
I hate myself for not having enough nerve to talk to her! Well, that’s not exactly true…I hate myself for a lot of other reasons too. – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts, Charlie Brown.
There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people…religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin! – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts, Linus van Pelt.