Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart – almost as good and a lot cheaper!
BILL WATTERSONLife is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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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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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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