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10 Joyous Peanuts Quotes Guaranteed to Improve Your Day

Reader's Digest EditorsRobin Honig Willens

By Reader's Digest Editors

Fact-checked by Robin Honig Willens

Updated on Apr. 09, 2025

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The best Peanuts quotes

After 65 years and more than 18,000 strips, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus and the whole Peanuts gang have touched millions of readers with their heartfelt and incisive philosophical musings. Charles Schulz debuted his first-ever Peanuts comic strip in newspapers across America on Oct. 2, 1950, and his memorable Peanuts quotes and cartoons have found their way onto greeting cards, posters and bumper stickers ever since.

Reader’s Digest compiled 10 Peanuts quotes that always make us smile. Read on to see if your favorite Charlie Brown quotes, Snoopy quotes and other famous quotes from Peanuts made the cut.

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