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Charles Schulz Quotes

24 quotes from Charles Schulz — Creator of Peanuts (Charlie Brown, Snoopy)..

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

Humor

“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”

Humor

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”

Happiness

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

Perseverance

“There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin.”

Wisdom

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

Advice

“Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you.”

Happiness

“Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.”

Family

“There is no greater burden than great potential.”

Potential

“In the Book of Life, the answers are not in the back.”

Wisdom

“Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears that we never use.”

Life

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

Humor

“Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.”

Life

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.”

Wisdom

“It was a dark and stormy night. - Snoopy”

Creativity

“Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.”

Reflection

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

Loneliness

“It's either the flu or love... The symptoms are the same.”

Love

“It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips. But I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.”

— Charles Schulz

“Leo Tolstoy dealt with the major problems of the world. I'm only dealing with why we all have the feeling that people don't like us.”

— Charles Schulz, 1977 BBC interview

“I never even let Charlie Brown kick the football.”

— Charles Schulz, final interview with Al Roker, 1999

“I'm always very much offended when someone asks me, 'Do I ever do satire on the social condition?' Well, I do it almost every day. I do things which are more important than politics. I'm dealing with love and hate and mistrust and fear and insecurity.”

— Charles Schulz, BBC interview, 1977

“I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities.”

— Charles Schulz, letter to Joel Lipton, 1970

“Most people who have comic-strip ambition wish to be able to draw only two or three weeks' material and then have it marketed. They are not willing to go through many years of apprenticeship.”

— Charles Schulz, on the apprenticeship required for cartooning

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Charles Schulz

Creator of Peanuts (Charlie Brown, Snoopy).