Charles M. Schulz Quotes

Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything.

Nobody gave me what I wanted for my birthday! Nobody! What sort of presents do you call these? New shoes, a green sweater and a bunch of stupid toys!"
"What were you expecting?"
"Real estate!

If you cant beat 'em cooperate 'em to death!

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

It's hard to convince people when you're just staring out the window that you're doing your hardest work of the day.

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

It's your money or you'll be wearing cement shoes - Peppermint Patty

Once when Monty was in kindergarten, I had read to him and was trying to get him to go to sleep. He said he didn't want to close his eyes because "It's dark in there.

I've been thinking ... Maybe you're a mockingbird ... Mockingbirds imitate the songs of other birds ... No, I've never heard of any copyright problems.

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.

Happiness is loving your enemies.

Lucy was using my blanket to dry the dishes ... We now have very secure dishes!

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

Schroeder, do you think love is the answer to everything?"
"Boy, I hope not!

Sometimes, when you're really depressed, all you want to do is nothing. All you want to do is lean your head on your arm, and stare into space. Sometimes this can go on for hours. If you're unusually depressed, you may have to change arms.

None of my kids can draw!

Brothers and sisters should never be in the same family.

Though her husband often went on business trips, she hated to be left alone.
"I've solved your problem," he said. "I've bought you a St. Bernard. Its name is Great Reluctance. Now, when I go away, you shall know that I am leaving you with Great Reluctance!"
She hit him with a waffle iron.

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

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don't understand that. Gosh.

How do we know where we're going? Follow the moon! Remember, the moon is always over Hollywood, and Needles isn't far from Hollywood.

Well, I know about loneliness. I won't talk about it, but I was very lonely after the war. I know what it feels like to spend a whole weekend all by yourself and no one wants you at all.

Good afternoon ... My name is Lucy ... I'm going to be your right-fielder ... Our special today is a misjudged fly-ball. We also have a nice bobbled ground ball and an exellent late throw to the infield ... I'll be back in a moment to take your order.

Every night it's the same ... I have supper in my red dish and drinking water in my yellow dish ... Tonight I think I'll have my supper in the yellow dish and my drinking water in the red dish. Life is too short not to live it up a little!

I come from a long line of generations!

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.

Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.

I feel sorry for little babies ... When a little baby is born into this cold world, he's confused! He's frightened! He needs something to cheer him up ... The way I see it, as soon as a baby is born, he should be issued a banjo!

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

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.

Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was.

Stop worrying about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

What's this? That little red-haired girl dropped her pencil ... Gee ... It's got teeth marks all over it ... She nibbles her pencil ... She's human!

Do what is absolutely you and nobody else.

Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry ... I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.

I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.

I have a question. What if your advice doesn't help me? Do I get my money back?"
"No, because as soon as you pay me, I run right out and spend it. That's one of the first things they teach you in medical school!

What's that?"
"It looks like something from Linus ... It is! He sent me a little birch-bark canoe from camp! He said he made it himself ... Sometimes I think I don't deserve a nice brother like Linus ... "
"I have often thought the same thing."
"Dear Linus, please send me another canoe. The first one broke when I threw it at Charlie Brown.

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For a nothing, Charlie Brown, you're really something!

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

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!

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

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

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

Sometimes I think my soul is full of weeds!

Never worry about tomorrow, Charlie Brown. Tomorrow will soon be today, and before you know it, today will be yesterday! I always worry about the day after tomorrow!

What can you do when you don't fit in? What can you do when life seems to be passing you by?"
"Follow me. I want to show you something. See the horizon over there? See how big this world is? See how much room there is for everybody? Have you ever seen any other worlds?"
"No."
"As far as you know, this is the only world there is, right?"
"Right."
"There are no other worlds for you to live in, right?"
"Right."
"You were born to live in this world, right?"
"Right."
"WELL LIVE IN IT THEN! Five cents please.

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

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

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "Gee, you could work real hard, couldn't you, and get several months ahead and then take the time off?"
Being, as I said, a slow learner, it took me until last year to realize what an odd statement that really is. You don't work all of your life to do something so you don't have to do it.

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!

This is my report on how to live ... They say the best way is just to live one day at a time ... If you try to live seven days at a time, the week will be over before you know it ...

No matter what anyone says, it's much worse to be unloved than it is to be lost in the woods."
"Sometimes, I think you've been lost in the woods all your life, Charlie Brown ...

There is no heavier burden than an unfulfilled potential.

One of Beethoven's favorite dishes was macaroni and cheese. The girl I marry must be able to make good macaroni and cheese ... "
"How did Beethoven feel about cold cereal?

Cartooning will destroy you; it will break your heart.

It was a dark and stormy night. - Snoopy

Just wait and see, Charlie Brown. I'll see the Great Pumpkin. I'll SEE the Great Pumpkin! Just you wait, Charlie Brown. The Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him ...

a little offending never hurt anybody

Snowflakes fascinate me ... Millions of them falling gently to the ground ... And they say that no two of them are alike! Each one completely different from all the others ... The last of the rugged individualists!

I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport.

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!

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

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

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

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

I guess babysitters are like used cars ... You never really know what you're getting ...

It's either the flu or love ... The synptoms are the same.

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.

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

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!

Well from now on, Linus think for yourself ... Don't take any advice from anyone!

Sometimes I lie awake ay night, and I wonder, "is life like golf or is it more like baseball?" Then a voice comes to me out of the dark that says, "try shuffleboard.

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

Do you have your own room, Charlie Brown?"
"Oh, yes ... I have a very nice room."
"I hope you realize that you won't always have your own room ... Someday you'll get drafted or something, and you'll have to leave your room forever!"
"Why do you tell me things like that?"
"It's on a list I've made up for you ... I call it, Things You Might As Well Know!

Dear Santa Claus, just a last note before you take off. I hope you have a nice trip. Don't forget to fasten your seat belt.

Sometimes I ask myself questions... Sometimes I ask myself, is this your real life or is this just a pilot film? Is my life a thirty-nine week series or is it a special?"
"Whatever it is, your ratings are down... Five cents, please!

It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am ... Carry on.

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.

Dearest darling, how I love you. Words cannot tell how much I love you. So forget it.

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

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.

Do you think if two people liked the same thing, it could bring them closer together?"
"Certainly ... Take classical music, for instance ... Two people who shared a love for Beethoven could become very close ... "
"How about TV?

Happiness is a sad song.

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

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.
For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.

If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.

Travel tips: How to avoid carsickness, seasickness and airsickness ... Be careful what you eat. And stay home.

I'm torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.

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

I've learned all I need to know to live under a bed.

These rocks are a release for my pent-up emotions. When I feel all tied up inside, I just stand here and throw rocks into that vacant lot!"
"Hello, Charlie Brown, you blockhead!"
"Sometimes I think I'm kind of a vacant lot myself ...

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.

Grownups are the ones who puzzle me at Christmastime...Who, but a grownup, would ruin a beautiful holiday season for himself by suddenly attempting to correspond with four hundred people he doesn't see all year?

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

There must be different kinds of loneliness, or at least different degrees of loneliness, but the most terrifying loneliness is not experienced by everyone and can be understood by only a few. I compare the panic in this kind of loneliness to the dog we see running frantically down the road pursuing the family car. He is not really being left behind, for the family knows it is to return, but for that moment in his limited understanding, he is being left alone forever, and he has to run and run to survive. It is no wonder that we make terrible choices in our lives to avoid loneliness.

Tell me what you'll do if you're captured by the coyotes ... Well, that might work, but does your mother live near here?