Great Throughts Treasury

"We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities."

"We have met the enemy, and he is us."

"[After Pogo says, Eventual Porky, I figger ev'ry critter's heart's in the right place., Porky responds:] If you gotta be wrong 'bout somthin', that's 'bout the best thing they is to be wrong 'bout."

"A parade is the worst form of transportation known to man."

"Don't believe something just because you didn't read it in the papers. Wait until you haven't seen it on television."

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

"Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it’s worthwhile to prove that he is himself."

"Albert made of solid alligator—he heavy."

"Every burden is a blessing."

"Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share."

"Foo, a beautiful gal wastes her time gracin' up this swamp."

"Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing."

"Given three strikes, the truth will out."

"God is not dead - he is merely unemployed."

"Ever since I heard you is got a million dollars I notice you is fraught with perspicacity."

"Halp! My powerful brain is blowed itself up!"

"Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts."

"I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person."

"If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read."

"If you wants to get elected president, you'se got to think up some memoraboble homily so's school kids can be Pestered into memorizin' it, even if they don't know what it means."

"I'll tell you, son, the minority got us out-numbered! [Congersman Frog]"

"In like a dimwit, out like a light."

"Is we runnin' TO it or FROM it?"

"It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation."

"Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at."

"Look alive. Here comes a buzzard."

"Looking back on things, the view always improves."

"Man tries to swallow meaning whole as a dog would eat his dinner."

"Now is the time for all good men to come to."

"Oop—I is tripped."

"Reciprovocation is the spites of life."

"Romeo wasn't bilked in a day."

"Scuse me—gotta hurry home—left the chillun on the stove."

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

"Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded."

"Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future."

"Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought. [Porkypine]"

"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. [Porkypine]"

"The happiness of society is the end of government."

"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."

"The Now is alive with a curious life which defies the descriptive powers of such divers as swim ahead of the swine in search of pearls."

"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention."

"There's no easy quick way out, we're gonna have to live through our whole lives, win, lose, or draw."

"Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle. There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blast on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us."

"Twenty Percent of Zero is Better than Nothing."

"We gotta make democracy safe for the world."

"What's good about March Well, for one thing, it keeps February and April apart."

"Women aren't as mere as they used to be."

"You got to be yourself, you got to discard all the bull and get YOU across ... and get what you have to say across."

"You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin'!"