H.W. Charles Quotes

See the valentine I made for Linus? On the inside, I wrote, To my sweet babboo." "He says he's not your sweet babboo." "What does he know?

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

Love makes you do strange things.

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!

You can't write a term paper before breakfast.

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

I enjoy looking at your face... Whenever I look at your face, a question always comes to my mind... Will man ever succeed in reaching the moon?

Love is not knowing what you're talking about.

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.

Little brothers are the buck privates of life!

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

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

The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm.

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

Duck, big brother! Here comes another day!

What happened to fun?" "Our insurance doesn't cover it!

How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy?

I'm depressed! I'm completely depressed! I am firmly convinced that there is no one in this world who really likes me!" "So what else is new?

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.

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

A beep on the nose is a sign of great affection.

Sometimes, when you walk by the home of the girl you love, you can see her standing by the window... She waves at you, and you wave back... But it's her grandmother.

I just don't know how to write a love letter. What can you say to a girl that shows you really like her?" "How about, enclosed please find a cookie?

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!

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

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

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

Here I am flying high over enemy lines in my Sopwith Camel searching for the Red Baron. Who's that behind me? It's the Red Baron! He has me in his sights! Give my regards to Broadway.

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.

Cartooning will destroy you; it will break your heart.

A watched supper dish never fills!

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

Cartooning really is just designing.

The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world!

Sometimes I wonder how you can stand being just a dog..." "You play with the cards you're dealt... Whatever that means.

I come from a long line of generations!

My grandfather has been very depressed lately. He just doesn't know what to do. He says it's late in the game, and he's afraid that life has him beaten." "Tell him to take out the goalie.

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

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.

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

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

You can't eat compliments.

Today is my grandfather's birthday." "How old is he?" "Sixty-three. It's hard to believe he was once a human being.

Linus: Nothing goes on forever. All good things must come to an end... Charlie: When do the good things start?

The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

I thought and dreamed of nothing else but the steel works.

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.

The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.