The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: 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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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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I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?
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Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh!
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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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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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Leader, bandits at 2 o’clock! Roger; it’s only 1:30 now-what’ll I do ’til then?
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Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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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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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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