Quotes from The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

Bill Watterson ·  256 pages

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“You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.”
― Bill Watterson, quote from The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury


“I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.”
― Bill Watterson, quote from The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury


“The world isn't fair, Calvin."
"I know Dad, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?”
― Bill Watterson, quote from The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury


“Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am? ”
― Bill Watterson, quote from The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury


“Now what state do you live in?'
'Denial.”
― Bill Watterson, quote from The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury



“Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously? ”
― Bill Watterson, quote from The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury


“I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.”
― Bill Watterson, quote from The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury


“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, quote from The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury


“Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination.
-Calvin”
― Bill Watterson, quote from The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury


“MOMMMM, I'm thirsty... What's this, just water?”
― Bill Watterson, quote from The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury



About the author

Bill Watterson
Born place: in Washington, D.C., The United States
Born date July 5, 1958
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