"I love mankind, It's people I can't stand."
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
"Happiness is a warm puppy."
"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.<br />
Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"
"This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this."
"I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it."
"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."
"Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, 'Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?' ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, 'We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.'"
"Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational."
"Stop worrying about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."
"If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house... Of course, if she sees me peeking around this tree, she'll think I'm the dumbest person in the world... But if I don't peek around the tree, I'll never see her... Which means I probably AM the dumbest person in the world... which explains why I'm standing in a batch of poison oak."
"Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed."
"Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate."
"Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos."
"All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog."
"I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building."
"Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults."
"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"
"In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back."
"I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens."
"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."
"I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong."
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely."
"Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong. - Snoopy"
"'Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.' - Charlie Brown to Snoopy."
"There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin."
"Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, 'Why me?', then a voice answers 'Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.'"
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon."
"Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you."
"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."
"It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up."
"Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker."
"No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from!"
"It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black."
"There is no greater burden than great potential."
"Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life."
"Life is like an ice cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time."
"That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another...."
"If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you'll always have a chance."
"Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone."
"There is nothing more attractive than a nice smile."
"Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you're the Charlie Brownest."
"To dance is to live!"
"Snoopy: So this is the last day of the year. Another complete year gone by and what have I accomplished this year that I haven't accomplished every other year? Nothing! (He smiles.) How consistent can you get?"
"Well, I can understand how you feel. You worked hard, studying for the spelling bee, and I suppose you feel you let everyone down, and you made a fool of yourself and everything. But did you notice something, Charlie Brown?"<br />
"What's that?"<br />
"The world didn't come to an end."
"Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about...That always worries me! "
"I'm dying and all I hear are insults!"
"Lucy: Do you think you have Pantophobia, Charlie Brown?<br />
Charlie: I don't know, what is pantophobia?<br />
Lucy: The fear of Everything.<br />
Charlie: THAT"S IT!!"
"Linus: What's wrong, Charlie Brown?<br />
Charlie Brown: I just got terrible news. The teacher says we're going on a field trip to an art museum; and I have to get an A on my report or I'll fail the whole course. Why do we have to have all this pressure about grades, Linus?<br />
Linus: Well, I think that the purpose of going to school is to get good grades so then you can go on to high school; and the purpose is to study hard so you can get good grades so you can go to college; and the purpose of going to college is so you can get good grades so you can go on to graduate school; and the purpose of that is to work hard and get good grades so we can get a job and be successful so that we can get married and have kids so we can send them to grammar school to get good grades so they can go to high school to get good grades so they can go to college and work hard...<br />
Charlie Brown: Good grief!"
"Linus: Nothing goes on forever. All good things must come to an end...<br />
Charlie: When do the good things start?"
"A beep on the nose is a sign of great affection."
"Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy?<br />
CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy! "
"I feel kind of depressed today... Do you ever have the feeling that life has passed you by?<br />
Worse than that... Sometimes I think life and I are going in opposite directions!"
"Never worry about tomorrow, Charlie Brown. Tomorrow will soon be today, and before you know it, today will be yesterday! I always worry about the day after tomorrow!"
"All is well... That's my new philosophy..."
"Sometimes I feel that life has passed me by... Do you ever feel that way, Charlie Brown?"<br />
"I feel that it has knocked me down and walked all over me!"
"'I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?'<br />
'Snap out of it! Five cents, please.'"
"Five hundred years from now, who'll know the difference?!"
"There sure are a lot of these 'instant' products on the market. Instant coffee, instant tea, instant pudding, instant cereal... instant dislike."
"Just wait and see, Charlie Brown. I'll see the Great Pumpkin. I'll SEE the Great Pumpkin! Just you wait, Charlie Brown. The Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him..."
"What if everyone in the whole world suddenly decided to run away from his problems?"<br />
"Well, at least we'd all be running in the same direction!"
"This is my report on how to live... They say the best way is just to live one day at a time... If you try to live seven days at a time, the week will be over before you know it..."
"You try for a little happiness, and what do you get? A few memories and a fat stomach!"
"Love is not knowing what you're talking about."
"If you can't beat 'em, co-operate 'em to death!"
"You know what I think my best quality is? I think I'm nice to have around. I'd hate it if I weren't around!"
"Look at Charlie Brown's face. Would you please hold still a minute Charlie Brown? I want Linus to study your face. Now this is what you call a failure face, Linus. Notice how it has failure written all over it. Study it carefully Linus. You rarely see such a good example. Notice the deep lines, the dull vacant look in the eyes. Yes, I would say this is one of the finest examples of a failure face that your liable to see for a long while."
"How is the birdhouse coming along, Charlie Brown?"<br />
"Well, I'm a lousy carpenter, I can't nail straight, I can't saw straight and I always split the wood... I'm nervous, I lack confidence, I'm stupid, I have poor taste and absolutely no sense of design... So, all things considered, it's coming along okay!"
"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..."<br />
"What did you want... A chance to warm up first?"
"Lucy was using my blanket to dry the dishes... We now have very secure dishes!"
"It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep."
"Love is letting him win even though you know you could slaughter him."
"My anxieties have anxieties."
"On a beautiful day like this it would be best to stay in bed so you wouldn't get up and spoil it!"
"Every night it's the same... I have supper in my red dish and drinking water in my yellow dish... Tonight I think I'll have my supper in the yellow dish and my drinking water in the red dish. Life is too short not to live it up a little!"
"Charlie Brown says that we're put here on earth to make others happy."<br />
"Is that why we're here? I guess I'd better start doing a better job... I'd hate to be shipped back!"
"Dear Valentine, I love you. Whoever you are."
"People shouldn't be embarrassed just because they get caught acting a little silly."
"For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!"<br />
"And then the game started!"
"Why are you standing here, Charlie Brown?"<br />
"I'm waiting for that little red-haired girl to walk by... I'm going to say hello to her and ask her how she's enjoying her summer vacation, and just sort of talk to her... You know..."<br />
"You'll never do it, Charlie Brown... You'll panic..."<br />
"Besides that, she's already walked by!"
"I'm depressed! I'm completely depressed! I am firmly convinced that there is no one in this world who really likes me!"<br />
"So what else is new?"
"Schroeder, do you think I'm beautiful?"<br />
"I think you're the most beautiful girl the world has ever known..."<br />
"You hate me, don't you?"
Charles M. Schulz