Peanuts Comic Strip

"(in a snow fort:) I am king of all I survey! This is an impregnable fortress! No one can take it! I could defend this position from a hundred attackers! I have ammunition enough to fight the whole day! This fortress stands firm and unyielding! It is like the rock of Gibralter! [sic - please note this is how the word is spelled in the actual strip] It is like... (Lucy hits him from behind with a snowball) You'll notice that you had to use strategy though, didn't you?!? (2 Jan 66)"

"(on his grandmother, who quit smoking to get Linus to give up his blanket:) That gray-haired, foxy old rascal! (1 Sep 67)"

"(embracing his blanket after rescuing it from the trash burner as quoted above:) Are you all right, ol' buddy? (13 Sep 67)"

"(Linus gave Snoopy his security blanket to keep for him in an attempt to break the habit, but when Linus decided he wanted the blanket back, he saw that Snoopy had the blanket made into sport coats for himself and Woodstock:) It's all your fault, Charlie Brown, because you own such a stupid beagle! Do you know what I just read in a medical journal? It said that a person who is deprived of his blanket by a stupid beagle who has it made into a sport coat cannot survive for more than forty-eight hours! (12 Nov 71)"

"(on World War II; the Stupid Cat Next Door:) That's no kitten - that's a thousand-pound gully cat! (18 Apr 72)"

"You can't bluff an old theologian! (6 Dec 72)"

"(after Linus explains to Eudora about the Great Pumpkin, and Lucy then tells Eudora, "See?":) How sharper than a serpent's tooth is a sister's "see?"! (26 Oct 80)"

"Good ol' Charlie Brown... he's the Charlie Browniest!"

"(at the end of every session at her psychiatric booth:) Five cents, please."

"(to Charlie Brown) I'll hold the ball and you come running up and kick it."

"(being chased by the other kids after purposely spoiling their games:) I'm frustrated and inhibited, and no one understands me. (24 Jan 54)"

"(after hugging Snoopy) Happiness is a warm puppy... (25 Apr 60)"

"(to Charlie Brown:) Don't let your team down by showing up! (16 Apr 63)"

"(threatening Linus:) These five fingers: individually they're nothing, but when I curl them together like this into a single unit (making a fist), they form a weapon that is terrible to behold! (5 Jan 64)"

"(panicking after Snoopy kisses her on the lips): AAUGH! I'VE BEEN KISSED BY A DOG!! I'VE BEEN POISONED! GET SOME IODINE! GET SOME HOT WATER! GERMS! GERMS! GERMS! (12 Dec 65 and several animations)"

"Can I help it if I was born with crabby genes?!? (1 Feb 66)"

"(on autumn:) See these leaves, Linus? They're flying south for the winter! (14 Oct 66)"

"(to Linus:) Do you realize that people are coming up to me, and saying "your brother pats birds on the head"? Well, I want you to stop it! Do you hear me?!? Stop it!!! (Bird trips her) (30 May 67)"

"(to Charlie Brown, at her psychiatric booth, explaining why people take advantage of him by talking too much:) It's your own fault! You're just too wishy-washy! People who talk too much deserve to be insulted! They deserve to have other people walk away from them! Talking too much is an unforgivable social sin - absolutely unforgivable! The only way to deal with people who talk too much is to let them know just how boring they really are. You can't waste your time with them, no, sir! Why should you sit and waste your valuable time while some bore talks on and on about nothing? Life is too short to waste it listening to some person who doesn't know when to shut up! Time is too valuable! Time is... (Charlie Brown sighs) (21 Jan 68)"

"(in her psychiatric booth, consoling Charlie Brown after he accidentally re-hooked Linus on security blankets after the latter had kicked his habit on his own): In all of mankind's history, there has never been more damage done than by people who "thought they were doing the right thing." Five cents, please. (18 Nov 71)"

"(learning of Rerun's birth, after having thrown Linus out of the house:) A new baby brother?!!? But I just got rid of the old one!!! (23 May 72)"

"What's wrong with a world where someone like Charlie Brown can get sick, and then not get any better? I NEED SOMEONE TO HIT!! (26 Jul 79)"

"(in right field:) This guy can't hit it! He swings like my grandmother! (a handbag is thrown at Lucy from behind and hits her in the head) Sorry, Grandma... it was just an expression... (17 Jul 82)"

"By the time I've grown up, we'll probably have a woman president. You know what that means, don't you? It means I won't get to be the first one. BOY, THAT MAKES ME MAD!! (29 Mar 84)"

"I keep wondering if Mom's planning to have more children. Lately she's been referring to me as "Volume One." (17 Feb 96)"

"(After Charlie Brown's kite explodes:) That's the first time I've ever seen a kite explode. (13 March 60)"

"No problem, manager... I missed it, but the ground caught it! Nice catch, ground! You're doing a good job! (18 Jul 77)"

"Watching your graceful movements on the pitcher's mound lulled me to sleep! (10 May 78)"

"(her excuse for missing another fly ball:) I was having my quiet time! (23 Jul 61)"

"I think there were toxic substances coming from my glove, and they made me dizzy. (24 May 81)"

"When the sun reflects off the bright yellow dandelions, I can't see the ball. (2 Jun 99)"

"(she waited for a grounder to stop rolling before she picked it up:) It was having a good time, and I didn't want to disturb it. (28 Jul 72)"

"(after kicking a football backwards over her own head:) I'm too feminine for this game! (1 Dec 64)"

"(his mother's lost three pounds by bicycling:) And through sheer terror I've lost five! (21 Jan 74)"

"Riding around all day on the back of your mom's bicycle gives you plenty of time to think...it gives you time to think about people and about life...and about what would happen if we ran into a tree! (22 Jan 74)"

"(to his basketball, angrily tossing it into the closet after he tried to shoot a basket twice and missed both times:)You can come out when you learn to behave! (30 Mar 97)"

"Yes, ma'am.. Read us again about the clumsy kid who fell down the rabbit hole. ... And about the Chesapeake Cat. .... And about how she met Tiger Woods. (28 Apr 97)"

"I don't think I should go to school anymore. Instead of getting smarter, I'm getting dumber every day. I figure in about one more month I'll bottom out. (30 Apr 97)"

"I can't go to school...I've been suspended again for one day...another whole day! Years from now, you know what people are going to say about me? "He's one day dumber than he should be!" (30 Oct 97)"

"My life is like a messy coloring book.(05 May 97)"

"Yes, ma'am.. I'm writing a story.. It's about this kid who's in kindergarten, and how the stress is slowly destroying him.. Every morning, he.. Ma'am? Well, I have another one here about some purple bunnies..(15 May 97)"

"I could run the whole world right here from under my bed! (27 Jan 98)"

"(to Linus:) I'm your younger brother, and I don't suck my thumb or cling to a blanket for security.. ... As the years go by, you'll probably develop a real resentment toward me.. (after Linus drapes his blanket over Rerun's head) And find different ways to get even. (16 Nov 94)"

"Only ____ days till Beethoven's birthday (text on the signs that Schroeder carries around usually in November and December)"

"(after a fly ball hits Lucy, Snoopy, Linus, Violet, 5 and Pigpen in the head:) I think you're right; six bonks is a new record. (22 May 83)"

"I'm inclined to agree with you, Charlie Brown. But on the other hand we must be cautious in our thinking. We must be careful not to "throw out the baby with the bath." (Baby Sally, who is listening, suddenly looks panicked; Schroeder looks at her and says:) Please pardon the expression. (17 Oct 59)"

"The joy is in the playing. (27 Jan 73)"

"(sees Lucy and Snoopy brawling:) Fighting under the mistletoe? How unfeminine...how unromantic...how gauche! (27 Dec 70)"

"(Lucy asks if musicians make a lot of money:) Money?! Who cares about money?!? This is ART, you blockhead! This is great music I'm playing, and playing great music is an art! Do you hear me? An art! (pounding on piano) Art! Art! Art! Art! Art! (30 Sep 56)]"

"(when Charlie Brown asks him how he's able to play such complicated pieces on his toy piano when the black keys are just painted on:) [matter-of-factly] I practice a lot. (9 Apr 53)"