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Your Quotes for 25 August 2005 - Walt Kelly

Walt Kelly was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on this day in 1913. He grew up at Bridgeport, Connecticut, did some early work in comic books, left for California and six years as an animator for Walt Disney (Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Fantasia), then moved to New York to start drawing comics for a newspaper that didn't last long. But his comics did. In the '50s and '60s his Pogo acquired a biting political satire, as voiced by various animals in the Okefenokee Swamp. During the '64 and '68 presidential campaigns he released two copies of each day's strip, the real one and one with cute bunnies in harmless conversation for newspapers with limited wit or courage.

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

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

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

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

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.

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

We have met the enemy, and he is us.
     - All from Walt Kelly, 1913 - 1973

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