Bill Watterson Quotes - Page 2

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.

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!

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?

A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.

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

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said 'I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?

Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you're done before you know it.

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.

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

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

The problem with people is that they're only human.

Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.

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

Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

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

I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!

If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?

Reality continues to ruin my life.

It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.

Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.