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Charles M. Schulz Quotes: 30

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

  • I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!

    The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
  • That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.

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

  • A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

  • Happiness is a warm puppy.

  • What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?

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

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

  • Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?"...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.

  • Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

    Charlie Brown's Little Book of Wisdom
  • In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.

  • Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Why me?", then a voice answers "Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

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

  • I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.

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

  • 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.

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

    Peanuts Treasury
  • 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!

    The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
  • Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

  • I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.

    Charles M. Schulz: Conversations
  • I'm dying and all I hear are insults!

  • I don't think God wants to be worshiped. I think the only pure worship of God is by loving one another, and I think all other forms of worship became a substitute for the love that we should show one another.

    Charles M. Schulz: Conversations