Charles M. Schulz Quotes

It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

Lucy: Our teacher wants us to write an essay on praying. Charlie Brown: Praying is important when you wake up at two o'clock in the morning feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before. Lucy: I'll just say we were out of town and I didn't have time to write anything.

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

Wouldn't it be nice if our lives were like VCRs , and we could 'fast forward' through the crummy times?

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

I've always been criticized, right from the beginning! Right from the very first day I was born... They said I wasn't right for the part!

Dear Santa Claus, just a last note before you take off. I hope you have a nice trip. Don't forget to fasten your seat belt.

Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar." "There must not have been a very strict building code.

Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.

Dear Valentine, I love you. Whoever you are.

Well, I know about loneliness. I won't talk about it, but I was very lonely after the war. I know what it feels like to spend a whole weekend all by yourself and no one wants you at all.

The best theology is probably no theology; just love one another.

LINUS: Where are you going for Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown? CHARLIE: My father, my mother, Sally, and I are all going to my grandmothers for dinner. SALLY: Do you want to come too, Linus? We can hold hands under the table. LINUS: BLECH!

It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.

I enjoy looking at your face... Whenever I look at your face, a question always comes to my mind... Will man ever succeed in reaching the moon?

I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and looking for areas where I can improve. I am always trying to draw the characters better, and trying to design each panel somewhat in the manner a painter would treat his canvas.

My anxieties have anxieties.

To dance is to live!

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

Humor is proof that everything is going to be all right with God nevertheless.

What's that?" "It looks like something from Linus... It is! He sent me a little birch-bark canoe from camp! He said he made it himself... Sometimes I think I don't deserve a nice brother like Linus..." "I have often thought the same thing." "Dear Linus, please send me another canoe. The first one broke when I threw it at Charlie Brown.

There is no greater burden than great potential.

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was.

Nobody gave me what I wanted for my birthday! Nobody! What sort of presents do you call these? New shoes, a green sweater and a bunch of stupid toys!" "What were you expecting?" "Real estate!

I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile.

A kiss on the nose does much toward turning aside anger.

Lucy: Do you think you have Pantophobia, Charlie Brown? Charlie: I don't know, what is pantophobia? Lucy: The fear of Everything. Charlie: THAT'S IT!!!

There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.

Have you ever known anyone who was happy? And was still in his right mind, I mean.

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?

Never give your heart to a blockhead.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

No matter what anyone says, it's much worse to be unloved than it is to be lost in the woods." "Sometimes, I think you've been lost in the woods all your life, Charlie Brown.

There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

All is well... That's my new philosophy.

Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer.

Your stupidity is appalling!" "Most stupidity is!

Dear Sweetheart, do you ever think of me? Just the other day I was thinking of you. I'm pretty sure it was you.

Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He's gotta pick this one. He's got to. I don't see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one. You can look around and there's not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.

What happened to fun?" "Our insurance doesn't cover it!

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my Life. DRAWING.

Here I am flying high over enemy lines in my Sopwith Camel searching for the Red Baron. Who's that behind me? It's the Red Baron! He has me in his sights! Give my regards to Broadway.

You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.