60 Years Later, the Best 'Peanuts' Quote of All Time Still Doesn't Get the Credit it Deserves

Charlie Brown has plenty of reasons to stop trying. In Charles Schulz’s Peanuts , his baseball games end in defeat, his kite gets stuck in a tree, and trusting Lucy to hold a football always ends painfully. Yet he keeps coming back. For all his worrying, Charlie Brown has a stubborn streak of hope that makes even his smallest acts of courage worth rooting for. One of the best examples comes from a Feb. 3, 1966, comic strip in which Lucy mocks him for volunteering for a school spelling bee.