Charles M. Schulz Quotations

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

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

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?

The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

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.

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

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.

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

No problem is too big to run away from.

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

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

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

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

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

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

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

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it...

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Do what is absolutely you and nobody else.

Brothers and sisters should never be in the same family.

Love makes you do strange things...

I can hear my heart beating. I can hear my stomach growling. I can hear my teeth grinding and my joints creaking. My body's so noisy, I can't sleep.

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.

Security is a thumb and a blanket. Happiness is a warm puppy.

There is no heavier burden than an unfulfilled potential.

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

If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!

Aren't the clouds beautiful? I could just lie here all day, and watch them drift by...

Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

Dear Valentine, I have thought of you often. Not all the time, but often.

Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!

Empty?! You took all the cookies!" "They were crying to get out of the jar... Cookies get claustrophobia too, you know!

Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about all the dumb things I do every day... If I live to be eighty and I do ten dumb things each day... That would be about two hundred and ninety thousand dumb things... When you add up all the dumb things you do, it's best to use round figures...

Dear Sweetheart, Without you my days are endless. Days seem like weeks... Weeks feel like months... Months like years... Years like centuries... Centuries like... You get the idea.

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

We used to have a dog named Snoopy, you know, a real live dog. I suppose people who love Snoopy won't like it, but we gave him away. He fought with other dogs, so we traded him in for a load of gravel.

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.

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!

I fall in love with any girl who smells of library paste.

My mind reels with sarcastic replies.

I'm dying and all I hear are insults!

Christmas is a box of tree ornaments that have become part of the family.

Love is sharing your popcorn.

Love is a letter on pink stationery.

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.

In life, it's not where you go, it's who you travel with.

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

A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.

Cartooning will destroy you; it will break your heart.

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

It won't do you any good to run if you're running the wrong way. I've developed a new philosophy...I only dread one day at a time.

You can't write a term paper before breakfast.

All you require is adore. But just a little chocolate at times will not damage.

It is difficult to talk about what I do, because I do it so I don't have to talk about it.

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

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.

When no one loves you, you have to pretend that everyone loves you.

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy... How can I ever forget them...

Cartooning really is just designing.

Friendship isn't about who you've known the longest. It's all about the friend who comes and stands by your side in bad times.

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

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

Little brothers are the buck privates of life!

A watched supper dish never fills!

You can't eat compliments.

Nobody remembers who came in second.

I love America. It's Americans I can't stand.

Some days, a beautiful sunset with your best friend can be one of the most peaceful and relaxing mediations of the day.

I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charlie Brown" "Have you ruled out stupidity?" "Peanuts", Charles M

Never, ever, ever give up.

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

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.

If you're going to draw a comic strip every day, you're going to have to draw on every experience in your life.

Only in math can you buy sixty cantaloupes and no one asks what the hell is wrong with you.

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

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.

A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.

The rain washed away my pitcher's mound... I'm a pitcher without a mound... I'm a lost soul... I'm like a politician out of office." "Or a sailor without an ocean..." "Or a boy without a girl...

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

Dear Valentine, I love you. Whoever you are.

Why are you standing here, Charlie Brown?" "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..." "You'll never do it, Charlie Brown... You'll panic..." "Besides that, she's already walked by!

Bob Dylan will be thirty years old this month..." "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard.

I've tried to be a better person... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried..." "Nice try... Five cents, please!

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?" "What's that?" "The world didn't come to an end.