Calvin Quotes

Calvin Quote of the day

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

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

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?

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

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

I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life...procrastinating and rationalizing.

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!!!

When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.

Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.

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

It's only work if somebody makes you do it.

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

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

Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.

I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin

No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and express terms, than Arminius has done.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long.

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

I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.

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

I'm a misunderstood genius.""What's misunderstood?""Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3)

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?"Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet

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

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.