Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Al Capp

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American cartoonist Al Capp.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Alfred Gerald Caplin, better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner, which he created in 1934 and continued writing and drawing until 1977. He also wrote the comic strips Abbie an' Slats and Long Sam (1954). He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award, posthumously for his "unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning". Capp's comic strips dealt with urban experiences in the northern states of the USA until the year he introduced "Li'l Abner". Although Capp was from Connecticut, he spent 43 years teaching the world about Dogpatch, reaching an estimated 60 million readers in more than 900 American newspapers and 100 more papers in 28 countries internationally. M. Thomas Inge says Capp made a large personal fortune through the strip and "had a profound influence on the way the world viewed the American South".

American - Cartoonist | September 28, 1909 - November 5, 1979

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Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

Al Capp

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

Al Capp

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

Al Capp

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

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

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

Al Capp

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

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.

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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

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

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

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

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Al Capp

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

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