Charles M. Schulz Quotes

Life is too short not to live it up a little!

I despise those shallow religious comics. Dennis the Menace, for instance, is the most shallow. When they show him praying - I just can't stand that sort of thing, talking to God about some cutesy thing that he'd done during the day. I don't think Hank Ketcham has any deep knowledge of things like that.

Love is a letter on pink stationery.

What if everyone in the whole world suddenly decided to run away from his problems?" "Well, at least we'd all be running in the same direction!

A watched supper dish never fills!

Little brothers are the buck privates of life!

Snoopy (musing on his rooftop): Good Grief! Is it November already? My life is going by too fast. I think someone pushed the "Fast Forward" button.

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.

I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens.

Maybe I can put it another way... Life, Charlie Brown, is like a deck chair." "Like a what?" "Have you ever been on a cruise ship? Passengers open up these canvas deck chairs so they can sit in the sun... Some people place their chairs facing the rear of the ship so they can see where they've been... Other people face their chairs forward... They want to see where they're going! On the cruise ship of life, Charlie Brown, which way is your deck chair facing?" "I've never been able to get one unfolded.

Going to our school is an education in itself which is not to be confused with actually getting an education.

Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

Mom put a note in my lunch again, I see... Dear son, I hope you will study hard in summer school... Do not look upon it as a punishment, but rather as a privilege... We are very proud of you, and want you to have a good education. This note will self-destruct in five seconds.

You try for a little happiness, and what do you get? A few memories and a fat stomach!

Today is my grandfather's birthday." "How old is he?" "Sixty-three. It's hard to believe he was once a human being.

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?

Sometimes, when you walk by the home of the girl you love, you can see her standing by the window... She waves at you, and you wave back... But it's her grandmother.

Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card.

The secret to speed-reading is moving your lips faster.

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.

I love people; it's mankind I can't stand.

Dear IRS, I am writing to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.

You can't survive by sucking the juice from a wet mitten.

On a beautiful day like this it would be best to stay in bed so you wouldn't get up and spoil it!

The crabby little girls of today are the crabby old women of tomorrow!

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

There sure are a lot of these 'instant' products on the market. Instant coffee, instant tea, instant pudding, instant cereal... instant dislike.

Why is it that you don't love me?" "Sometimes I wish I knew..." "Don't anybody tell him!!

Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you're the Charlie Brownest.

Five hundred years from now, who'll know the difference?!

It just seems that if you hang on for a while longer, there is always something bright around the corner, or the dark clouds will go away and there will be sunshine again.

I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars!

Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy? CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!

I don't think God wants to be worshiped. I think the only pure worship of God is by loving one another, and I think all other forms of worship became a substitute for the love that we should show one another.

There is no heavier burden than an unfulfilled potential.

It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration.

I think I'll go over and introduce myself to that little red-haired girl. I think I'll introduce myself, and then ask her to come over and sit next to me. I think I'll ask her to sit next to me here, and then I think I'll tell her how much I've always admired her... I think I'll flap my arms, and fly to the moon.

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.

I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?' 'Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

I'm depressed! I'm completely depressed! I am firmly convinced that there is no one in this world who really likes me!" "So what else is new?

One moment, please... We interrupt our regular program to bring you this special bulletin: It's a nice day outside.

I love humanity, it's people I don't like.

I want to know about life! I want some real answers..." "Five." "Five?!" "I thought that was a pretty good answer!

Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without ice cream!

Why me, lord? Don't answer that!

Sometimes I feel that life has passed me by... Do you ever feel that way, Charlie Brown?" "I feel that it has knocked me down and walked all over me!

How is the birdhouse coming along, Charlie Brown?" "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!

I think anybody who is writing finds he puts a little bit of himself in all of the characters, at least in this kind of a strip. It's the only way that you can survive when you have to do something every day. You have to put yourself, all of your thoughts, all of your observations and everything you know into the strip.