Al Capp Quotes & Sayings

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband. — Al Capp

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend? — Al Capp

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference. — Al Capp

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. — Al Capp

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us. — Al Capp

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it. — Al Capp

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed if necessary. — Al Capp

Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color. — Al Capp

I've learned one thing-people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest. — Al Capp

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke. — Al Capp

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital. — Al Capp

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. — Al Capp

What's good for General Bullmoose is good for the U.S.A.! — Al Capp

As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor. — Al Capp

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. — Al Capp

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Al Capp