It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
BILL WATTERSONI can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
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I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming.
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[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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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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I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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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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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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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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Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.
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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
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Barney’s Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a plan when his dad said “Eat your peas.” Barney shouted no and ran Barney tricked his mean old dad and locked him in the cellar Barney’s Mom never found out where he’d gone, Cause Barney didn’t tell her. T
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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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Calvin: Medically speaking:. That’s love?!?….. Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
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When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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