Michael Leunig Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.”

“Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.”

“When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.”

“You wouldn't wish hardship on anyone, but when it comes, you would be crazy not to see the huge growth that will come from it.”

“To be a pleasant person, you would at least need to see the point of being a pleasant person, or have it explained to you at some sort of 'finishing school' where you could actually learn the laws of propriety and the skills of appearing well-adapted, easygoing and attractively trouble free. But where do you learn these things? I don't know.”

“What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls.”

“Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.”

“A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.”

“Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.”

“I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people - immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just failed. I look back and sometimes cringe. But one regret as I get older is that I haven't been radical and wild enough.”