Don’t any of the Peanuts fans realize that Rod McKuen wrote the music and lyrics for the movie “A Boy Named Charlie Brown,” the first Peanuts theatrical release, in 1969, when this comic came out? It was probably an in-joke or a nod from Charles Schulz.
The character Taras Bulba said this in the 1835 novel by Nikolai Gogol, based on a real person from 1741, long before any of these people.