Mothers are the necessity of invention.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: 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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I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
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That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.
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As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever.
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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond’rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces… Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug’s juices!
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