Al Capp Quotes


"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
(Related: Difference, Embarrassment, Resentment, World)

"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
(Related: Truth, Bible, Books, Reason, World)

"Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
- Al Capp
"Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution."
- Al Capp
(Related: Experience)

"Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work."
- Al Capp
(Related: Work, Office, Welfare)

"Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband."
- Al Capp
(Related: HusbFirst, Lady, Hair)

"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
(Related: Work, Being, Day, Fish)

"Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most."
- Al Capp
(Related: Life, Success)

"The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke."
- Al Capp
(Related: Public)

"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
(Related: Today)