Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
BILL WATTERSONIt’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I’m cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
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Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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Calvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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Hold it. You know what I’d like to see? I’d like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?
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There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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It’s going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn’t know anything but what it’s seen on TV.
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I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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