Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The way Calvin's brain is wired you can almost hear the fuses blowing. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me! — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin: Medically speaking:. That's love?!?… Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!! — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am. ...I've got more brains than I know what to do with.… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad? — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school.… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man?… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
As "Calvin and Hobbes" went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity. One of the jokes I really like is… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?!… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
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,… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
CALVIN: This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
CALVIN: Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it's weird that we… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff!… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble.] Calvin: Ha! I've got a great word and it's on a "Double word score" box! Hobbes:… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Hobbes: What are you doing? Calvin: Being "cool." Hobbes: You look more like you're being bored. Calvin: The world bores you when… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“CALVIN: Hey, I got some mail! It's a Valentine card. HOBBES: From Susie Derkins! CALVIN: It says "Please be my Valentine." HOBBES:… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. — Bill Watterson Copy Share
For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us. — Bill Watterson Copy Share
As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
United Features had given me a development contract, which meant I was to work exclusively with them and rather than completing everything on my… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art. — Bill Watterson Copy Share
If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
By golly, life's too darn short to waste time trying to please every meddlesome moron who's got an idea how I ought to be!… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
![“Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of…” quote by Bill Watterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3eb/bill-watterson-728_captains_ms-wormwood-calvin-can-you-tell-us-what_699320.png)
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