Hobbes Quotes

Hobbes Quote of the day

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.

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

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

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.

Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.

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

Reality continues to ruin my life.

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

Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.

I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.

Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola.

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

Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin.

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

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

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

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

This a sacred rule we find Among the nicest of mankind, (Which never might exception brook From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,) To doubt of facts, however true, Unless they know the causes too.

Scientific Progress goes boink?

I've been thinking Hobbes" "On a weekend?" "Well, it wasn't on purpose

You know what's the rage this year? ...Hats.

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

Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.

If you don't get a goodnight kiss, you get Kafka dreams.

HOBBES: Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now "grieving" for "Calvin and Hobbes" would be wishing me dead.

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. Hobbes: So I've noticed.

I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over The Onion or Calvin and Hobbes. That was considered completely normal.

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

Nature indeed plants the seeds of religion--fear and ignorance kingcraft and priestcraft water and tend it.

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

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