Hobbes Quotes

• You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

  Bill Watterson

  Funny, Moving, School

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• Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it.

  Bill Watterson

  Men, Risk, Ignorant

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• Reality continues to ruin my life.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1994.

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• Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Wells

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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.

  Bill Watterson

  Running, Frustration, Life Is Like

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• Mom’s not feeling well. So I’m making her a get well card.” “That’s thoughtful of you.” "See, on the front it says, ‘Get Well Soon’ … and on the inside it says,’Because my bed isn’t made, my clothes need to be put away and I’m hungry. Love Calvin.’ Want to sign it?” “Sure, I’m hungry too

  Bill Watterson

  Mom, Get Well Soon, Thoughtful

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• You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

  Bill Watterson

  Good Luck, Lucky, Rockets

  "It's a Magical World". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1996.

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• A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

  Bill Watterson

  Avoiding, Slips

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• I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

  Bill Watterson

  Stupid, Dumb, Useless

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Comic strip by Bill Watterson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 1985 – December 31, 1995.

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• Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

  Bill Watterson

  Winning, Snow, Inches

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• Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure man needs the help.

  Bill Watterson

  Believe, Men, Evil

  "The Days Are Just Packed". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1993.

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• Scientific Progress goes boink?

  Bill Watterson

  Progress, Scientific Progress

  Bill Watterson (1992). “The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Talking, Speaking Up

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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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.

  Bill Watterson

  Differences, Inability, Praying

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• There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!

  Bill Watterson

  Guilt, Add, Awful

  "The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, September 1988.

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• The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

  Bill Watterson

  Reality, Issues, Special

  Bill Watterson (1995). “The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book”, p.11, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Calvin: Medically speaking:. That's love?!?..... Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!

  Bill Watterson

  Love, Cooties, Happened

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• Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin.

  Bill Watterson

  Reality, Virtual Reality

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• County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

  Bill Watterson

  Library, Needs, Definitions

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• The way Calvin's brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.

  Bill Watterson

  Brain, Way, Fuse

  "The Days Are Just Packed". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1993.

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• Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes

  Bill Watterson

  Stalking

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• Calvin: Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it's weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it's funny. Don't you think it's odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us? Hobbes: I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Appreciate, Giving

  "The Days Are Just Packed". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1993.

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• It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!

  Bill Watterson

  Magic, World, Comic Strips

  "It's a Magical World". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1996.

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• I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?

  Bill Watterson

  Mean, Pittsburgh, Wonder

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• About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and "twas the 47 El. libri I" [Pythagoras' Theorem]. He read the proposition "By God", sayd he, "this is impossible:" So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition; which proposition he read. That referred him back to another, which he also read. Et sic deinceps, that at last he was demonstratively convinced of that truth. This made him in love with geometry.

  John Aubrey

  Love, Truth, Years

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