Explore Quotes by Bil Keane

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.

I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you're gonna let me in I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start

Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme

Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face