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2: good enough for me! I demand euphoria! -- Calvin
3: %
4: The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and
5: inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and
6: impenetrable fog! -- Calvin
7: %
8: Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's
9: misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. -- Calvin
10: %
11: Well, it just seemed wrong to cheat on an ethics test. -- Calvin
12: %
13: Calvin: Can you make a living playing silly games? His Dad: Actually, you
14: can be among the most overpaid people on the planet.
15: %
16: If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it
17: again. -- Calvin
18: %
19: The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real
20: application in life. -- Calvin
21: %
22: Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best
23: of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and
24: refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their
25: heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles! -- Calvin
26: %
27: Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in
28: the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. -- Calvin
29: %
30: It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
31: -- Calvin
32: %
33: The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
34: -- Calvin
35: %
36: Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change
37: what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell
38: the difference. -- Calvin
39: %
40: I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to
41: seriously re-examine your life. -- Calvin
42: %
43: But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands
44: sacrifice! -- Calvin
45: %
46: It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.
47: -- Calvin
48: %
49: Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
50: -- Calvin
51: %
52: Hobbes: What would you call the creation of the universe?
53: Calvin: The Horrendous Space Kablooie!
54: %
55: If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then
56: it's probably not worth knowing anyway. -- Calvin
57: %
58: Who wouldn't be interested in everything we do?!
59: -- Calvin
60: %
61: I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each
62: other's dreams, we can play together all night. -- Calvin
63: %
64: This one's tricky. You have to use imaginary numbers, like eleventeen ...
65: -- Hobbes
66: %
67: You can present the material, but you can't make me care.
68: -- Calvin
69: %
70: YAAH! DEATH TO OATMEAL!
71: -- Calvin
72: %
73: From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
74: -- Calvin
75: %
76: I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life ...
77: Procrastinating and rationalizing. -- Calvin
78: %
79: Reality continues to ruin my life.
80: -- Calvin
81: %
82: Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts.
83: I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Hobbes: Probably so we can think
84: twice.
85: %
86: I liked things better when I didn't understand them.
87: -- Calvin
88: %
89: Is it a right to remain ignorant?
90: -- Calvin
91: %
92: I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less
93: distraction. -- Calvin
94: %
95: Miss Wormwood: What state do you live in?
96: Calvin: Denial.
97: Miss Wormwood: I don't suppose I can argue with that...
98: %
99: What's the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody
100: ever asks to see 'em? -- Calvin
101: %
102: My life needs a rewind/erase button.
103: -- Calvin
104: %
105: Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely
106: pointless. -- Calvin
107: %
108: You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help.
109: -- Calvin
110: %
111: I imagine bugs and girls have a dim perception that nature played a cruel
112: trick on them, but they lack the intelligence to really comprehend the
113: magnitude of it. -- Calvin
114: %
115: Susie: You'd get a good grade without doing any work.
116: Calvin: So?
117: Susie: It's wrong to get rewards you haven't earned.
118: Calvin: I've never heard of anyone who couldn't live with that.
119: %
120: If you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe we'll just have to make some!
121: -- Calvin
122: %
123: "MOM, CAN I SET FIRE TO MY BED MATTRESS?" "No, Calvin." "CAN I RIDE MY
124: TRICYCLE ON THE ROOF?" "No, Calvin." "Then can I have a cookie?" "No, Calvin."
125: ("She's on to me.")
126: %
127: I like to say "quark"! Quark, quark, quark, quark!
128: -- Calvin
129: %
130: I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the
131: slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway. -- Calvin
132: %
133: For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get
134: used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free
135: country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is how I
136: am - Take it or leave it! -- Calvin
137: %
138: Know what I pray for? The strength to change what I can, the inability to
139: accept what I can't and the incapacity to tell the difference. -- Calvin
140: %
141: As usual, goodness hardly puts up a fight.
142: -- Calvin
143: %
144: If we don't all watch the same TV, what will keep our culture homogeneous?
145: -- Calvin
146: %
147: My behaviour is addictive functioning in a disease process of toxic
148: co-dependency. I need holistic healing and wellness before I'll accept any
149: responsibility for my actions. -- Calvin
150: %
151: My family is dysfunctional and my parents won't empower me. Consequently
152: I'm not self actualized. -- Calvin
153: %
154: Nothing I do is my fault.
155: -- Calvin
156: %
157: Why should I have to work for everything? It's like saying that I don't
158: deserve it. -- Calvin
159: %
160: Why do we drink cow's milk? Who was the first guy who first looked at a cow
161: and said "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze
162: 'em!"? -- Calvin
163: %
164: Hobbes : What if the public doesn't like your work?
165: Calvin : They are not supposed to like it. This is avant-garde stuff!
166: I'm criticizing the low brows who can't appreciate great art
167: like this!
168: %
169: I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the
170: slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway. -- Calvin
171: %
172: The dame was hysterical. Dames Usually are. -- Calvin as Tracer Bullet
173: %
174: Thank you. before I begin, I'd like everyone to notice that my report is in
175: a professional, clear plastic binder...When a report looks this good, you know
176: it'll get an A. That's a tip kids. Write it down. -- Calvin
177: %
178: Calvin : I think we have got enough information now, don't you?
179: Hobbes : All we have is one "fact" that you made up.
180: Calvin : That's plenty. By the time we add an introduction, a few
181: illustrations and a conclusion, it'll look like a graduate thesis.
182: %
183: Wormwood : Calvin, how about you?
184: Calvin : Hard to say ma'am. I think my cerebellum just fused.
185: %
186: If you want to stay dad you've got to polish your image. I think the image
187: we need to create for you is "repentant but learning". -- Calvin
188: %
189: "Dad buried in landslide! Jubilant throngs fill streets! Stunned father
190: inconsolable - demands recount!" -- Calvin
191: %
192: Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly
193: we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. But it is too late to change
194: anything. -- Calvin
195: %
196: Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for
197: what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.
198: -- Calvin
199: %
200: Hobbes : Well, you still have afternoons and weekends
201: Calvin : That's when I watch TV.
202: %
203: Hobbes : Shouldn't we read the instructions?
204: Calvin : Do I look like a sissy?
205: %
206: You know what we need, Hobbes? We need an attitude. Yeah, you can't be cool
207: if you don't have an attitude. -- Calvin
208: %
209: Why can't I ever build character at a Miami condo or a casino somewhere?
210: -- Calvin
211: %
212: Sometimes one should just look at things and think about things without
213: doing things. -- Calvin
214: %
215: What do you get when you cross a cantaloupe with lassie? A melon-collie
216: baby! Get it?? HA HA HA OH OH HA HA! -- Calvin
217: %
218: Hobbes : How is the diorama coming along?
219: Calvin : I'm almost finished.
220: Hobbes : I don't see the roadrunner. Weren't you going to put one in?
221: Calvin : See the cotton balls I glued down?
222: Hobbes : Yeah?
223: Calvin : The roadrunner just ran out of the scene leaving behind clouds
224: of dust!
225: %
226: It must be awful to be a girl. I'm sure it's frustrating knowing that men
227: are bigger, stronger and better at abstract thought than women. Really, if you
228: are a girl, what would make you go on living? --Calvin, Dictator-For-Life, of
229: GROSS (Get Rid Of Slimy girlS)
230: %
231: There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
232: -- Calvin
233: %
234: Golly, I'd hate to have a kid like me!
235: -- Calvin
236: %
237: This is so cool I've to go to the bathroom.
238: -- Calvin
239: %
240: I imagine girls and bugs have a dim perception that nature played a cruel
241: trick on them but they lack the intelligence to really comprehend the magnitude
242: of it. -- Calvin
243: %
244: Dad are you vicariously living through me in the hope that my
245: accomplishments will validate your mediocre life and in some way compensate for
246: all the opportunities you botched ? -- Calvin
247: %
248: If you care, you just get disappointed all the time. If you don't care
249: nothing matters so you are never upset. -- Calvin
250: %
251: Life is full of surprises but never when you need one.
252: -- Calvin
253: %
254: I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and
255: happiness. -- Calvin
256: %
257: "The dynamics of inter-being and mono logical imperatives in Dick and Jane :
258: A study in psychic transrelational gender modes". Academia, here I come.
259: -- Calvin
260: %
261: Miss Wormwood : Calvin where was the Byzantine empire?
262: Calvin : I'll take "outer planets" for $100.
263: %
264: How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongol hordes got bored?
265: -- Calvin
266: %
267: I thrive on change... I thrive on making other people change.
268: -- Calvin
269: %
270: Be careful or be road-kill.
271: -- Calvin
272: %
273: A good compromise leaves everyone mad.
274: -- Calvin
275: %
276: Given that sooner or later we're all just going to die, what's the point of
277: learning about integers? -- Calvin
278: %
279: Miss Wormwood, could we arrange our seats in a little circle and have a
280: little discussion? Specifically, I'd like to debate whether cannibalism ought
281: to be grounds for leniency in murders since it is less wasteful.
282: -- Calvin
283: %
284: The only skills I have patience to learn are those that have no real
285: application in life. -- Calvin
286: %
287: "You don't get to be mom if you can't fix everything just right." -Calvin
288: %
289: "Who can fathom the feminine mind?" -Calvin "I like `em anyway" -Hobbes
290: %
291: "If people could put rainbows in zoos, they'd do it." -Hobbes
292: %
293: "Summer is butter on your chin and corn mush between every tooth." -Calvin
294: %
295: "If we wanted more leisure, we'd invent machines that do things less
296: efficiently." -Calvin's dad
297: %
298: "To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible." -Calvin
299: %
300: "When life gives you a lemon, make lemonade." -Susie "I say, when life gives
301: you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own!" -Calvin
302: %
303: "If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?"
304: -Hobbes
305: %
306: "But the important thing is persistence." -Calvin trying to juggle eggs
307: %
308: "I suppose the secret to happiness is learning to appreciate the moment."
309: -Calvin
310: %
311: "Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely
312: pointless." -Calvin
313: %
314: "It's hard to be mad at someone who misses you while you're asleep." -Calvin
315: %
316: "Oops, I always forget the purpose of competition is to divide people into
317: winners and losers." -Hobbes being sarcastic
318: %
319: "Someday I'll write my own philosophy book." -Calvin
320: %
321: "Some things don't need the thought people give them." -Hobbes
322: %
323: "Mom knows EVERYTHING" -Calvin
324: %
325: "I'm a simple man with complex tastes." -Calvin
326: %
327: "Endorsing products is the American way of expressing individuality."
328: -Calvin
329: %
330: "One of the joys of being a kid is that experiences are new and therefore
331: more intense." -Calvin sniffing mustard
332: %
333: "It's great to have a friend who appreciates an earnest discussion of
334: ideas." -Calvin
335: %
336: "That's the problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying
337: to describe things of unimaginable wonder." -Calvin
338: %
339: "All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once."
340: -Hobbes
341: %
342: "I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't
343: react to a lot of life." -Hobbes
344: %
345: "I don't understand this! Not a single part of my horoscope came true! ...
346: The paper should print Mom's daily predictions. Those sure come true."
347: -Calvin
348: %
349: "I don't know which is worse, ...that everyone has his price, or that the
350: price is always so low." -Calvin
351: %
352: "I propose we leave math to the machines and go play outside."
353: --- Calvin
354: %
355: It takes an uncommon mind to think of these things.
356: --- Calvin
357: %
358: "That's the problem with nature, something's always stinging you
359: or oozing mucous all over you. Let's go and watch TV."
360: --- Calvin
361: %
362: As a math atheist, I think I should be excused from this.
363: --- Calvin, to Hobbes
364: %
365: This game lends itself to certain abuses.
366: --- Calvin
367: %
368: I'm just very selective about the reality I choose to accept.
369: --- Calvin
370: %
371: I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it.
372: --- Calvin
373: %
374: A voice crackles in Calvin's radio:
375: "Enemy fighters at two o'clock!"
376: "Roger. What should I do until then?"
377: %
378: I'm looking for something that can deliver a 50-pound payload of snow
379: on a small feminine target. Can you suggest something? Hello...?
380: --- Calvin
381: %
382: "My ethicator machine must've had a built-in moral compromise
383: spectral release phantasmatron! I'm a genius!" --- Calvin
384: %
385: "That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of
386: empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder."
387: --- Calvin
388: %
389: "Until you stalk and overrun, you can't devour anyone."
390: --- Hobbes
391: %
392: "The inside of my head was exploding with fireworks. Fortunately,
393: my last thought turned out the lights when it left."
394: --- Calvin
395: %
396: "Mom and dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I
397: believe in. But every time I do, they tell me to stop it."
398: --- Calvin
399: %
400: Verbing weirds language.
401: --- Calvin.
402: %
403: "The intrepid Spaceman Spiff is stranded on a distant planet!
404: ..our hero ruefully acknowledges that this happens fairly
405: frequently.." --- Calvin and Hobbes
406: good enough for me! I demand euphoria! - Calvin
407: %
408: The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and
409: inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and
410: impenetrable fog! - Calvin
411: %
412: Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's
413: misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. - Calvin
414: %
415: Well, it just seemed wrong to cheat on an ethics test. - Calvin
416: %
417: Calvin: Can you make a living playing silly games? His Dad: Actually, you
418: can be among the most overpaid people on the planet.
419: %
420: If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it
421: again. - Calvin
422: %
423: The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real
424: application in life. - Calvin
425: %
426: Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best
427: of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and
428: refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their
429: heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles! - Calvin
430: %
431: Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in
432: the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. - Calvin
433: %
434: It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
435: - Calvin
436: %
437: The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
438: - Calvin
439: %
440: Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change
441: what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell
442: the difference. - Calvin
443: %
444: I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to
445: seriously re-examine your life. - Calvin
446: %
447: But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands
448: sacrifice! - Calvin
449: %
450: It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.
451: - Calvin
452: %
453: Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
454: - Calvin
455: %
456: Hobbes: What would you call the creation of the universe?
457: Calvin: The Horrendous Space Kablooie!
458: %
459: If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then
460: it's probably not worth knowing anyway. - Calvin
461: %
462: Who wouldn't be interested in everything we do?!
463: - Calvin
464: %
465: I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each
466: other's dreams, we can play together all night. - Calvin
467: %
468: This one's tricky. You have to use imaginary numbers, like eleventeen ...
469: - Hobbes
470: %
471: You can present the material, but you can't make me care.
472: - Calvin
473: %
474: YAAH! DEATH TO OATMEAL!
475: - Calvin
476: %
477: From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
478: - Calvin
479: %
480: I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life ...
481: Procrastinating and rationalizing. - Calvin
482: %
483: Reality continues to ruin my life.
484: - Calvin
485: %
486: Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts.
487: I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Hobbes: Probably so we can think
488: twice.
489: %
490: I liked things better when I didn't understand them.
491: - Calvin
492: %
493: Is it a right to remain ignorant?
494: - Calvin
495: %
496: I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less
497: distraction. - Calvin
498: %
499: Miss Wormwood: What state do you live in?
500: Calvin: Denial.
501: Miss Wormwood: I don't suppose I can argue with that...
502: %
503: What's the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody
504: ever asks to see 'em? - Calvin
505: %
506: My life needs a rewind/erase button.
507: - Calvin
508: %
509: Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely
510: pointless. - Calvin
511: %
512: You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help.
513: - Calvin
514: %
515: I imagine bugs and girls have a dim perception that nature played a cruel
516: trick on them, but they lack the intelligence to really comprehend the
517: magnitude of it. - Calvin
518: %
519: Susie: You'd get a good grade without doing any work.
520: Calvin: So?
521: Susie: It's wrong to get rewards you haven't earned.
522: Calvin: I've never heard of anyone who couldn't live with that.
523: %
524: If you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe we'll just have to make some!
525: - Calvin
526: %
527: "MOM, CAN I SET FIRE TO MY BED MATTRESS?" "No, Calvin." "CAN I RIDE MY
528: TRICYCLE ON THE ROOF?" "No, Calvin." "Then can I have a cookie?" "No, Calvin."
529: ("She's on to me.")
530: %
531: I like to say "quark"! Quark, quark, quark, quark!
532: - Calvin
533: %
534: I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the
535: slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway. - Calvin
536: %
537: For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get
538: used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free
539: country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is how I
540: am - Take it or leave it! - Calvin
541: %
542: Know what I pray for? The strength to change what I can, the inability to
543: accept what I can't and the incapacity to tell the difference. - Calvin
544: %
545: As usual, goodness hardly puts up a fight.
546: - Calvin
547: %
548: If we don't all watch the same TV, what will keep our culture homogeneous?
549: - Calvin
550: %
551: My behaviour is addictive functioning in a disease process of toxic
552: co-dependency. I need holistic healing and wellness before I'll accept any
553: responsibility for my actions. - Calvin
554: %
555: My family is dysfunctional and my parents won't empower me. Consequently
556: I'm not self actualized. - Calvin
557: %
558: Nothing I do is my fault.
559: - Calvin
560: %
561: Why should I have to work for everything? It's like saying that I don't
562: deserve it. - Calvin
563: %
564: Why do we drink cow's milk? Who was the first guy who first looked at a cow
565: and said "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze
566: 'em!"? - Calvin
567: %
568: Hobbes : What if the public doesn't like your work?
569: Calvin : They are not supposed to like it. This is avant-garde stuff!
570: I'm criticizing the low brows who can't appreciate great art
571: like this!
572: %
573: I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the
574: slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway. - Calvin
575: %
576: The dame was hysterical. Dames Usually are. - Calvin as Tracer Bullet
577: %
578: Thank you. before I begin, I'd like everyone to notice that my report is in
579: a professional, clear plastic binder...When a report looks this good, you know
580: it'll get an A. That's a tip kids. Write it down. - Calvin
581: %
582: Calvin : I think we have got enough information now, don't you?
583: Hobbes : All we have is one "fact" that you made up.
584: Calvin : That's plenty. By the time we add an introduction, a few
585: illustrations and a conclusion, it'll look like a graduate thesis.
586: %
587: Wormwood : Calvin, how about you?
588: Calvin : Hard to say ma'am. I think my cerebellum just fused.
589: %
590: If you want to stay dad you've got to polish your image. I think the image
591: we need to create for you is "repentant but learning". - Calvin
592: %
593: "Dad buried in landslide! Jubilant throngs fill streets! Stunned father
594: inconsolable - demands recount!" - Calvin
595: %
596: Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly
597: we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. But it is too late to change
598: anything. - Calvin
599: %
600: Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for
601: what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.
602: - Calvin
603: %
604: Hobbes : Well, you still have afternoons and weekends
605: Calvin : That's when I watch TV.
606: %
607: Hobbes : Shouldn't we read the instructions?
608: Calvin : Do I look like a sissy?
609: %
610: You know what we need, Hobbes? We need an attitude. Yeah, you can't be cool
611: if you don't have an attitude. - Calvin
612: %
613: Why can't I ever build character at a Miami condo or a casino somewhere?
614: - Calvin
615: %
616: Sometimes one should just look at things and think about things without
617: doing things. - Calvin
618: %
619: What do you get when you cross a cantaloupe with lassie? A melon-collie
620: baby! Get it?? HA HA HA OH OH HA HA! - Calvin
621: %
622: Hobbes : How is the diorama coming along?
623: Calvin : I'm almost finished.
624: Hobbes : I don't see the roadrunner. Weren't you going to put one in?
625: Calvin : See the cotton balls I glued down?
626: Hobbes : Yeah?
627: Calvin : The roadrunner just ran out of the scene leaving behind clouds
628: of dust!
629: %
630: It must be awful to be a girl. I'm sure it's frustrating knowing that men
631: are bigger, stronger and better at abstract thought than women. Really, if you
632: are a girl, what would make you go on living? -Calvin, Dictator-For-Life, of
633: GROSS (Get Rid Of Slimy girlS)
634: %
635: There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
636: - Calvin
637: %
638: Golly, I'd hate to have a kid like me!
639: - Calvin
640: %
641: This is so cool I've to go to the bathroom.
642: - Calvin
643: %
644: I imagine girls and bugs have a dim perception that nature played a cruel
645: trick on them but they lack the intelligence to really comprehend the magnitude
646: of it. - Calvin
647: %
648: Dad are you vicariously living through me in the hope that my
649: accomplishments will validate your mediocre life and in some way compensate for
650: all the opportunities you botched ? - Calvin
651: %
652: If you care, you just get disappointed all the time. If you don't care
653: nothing matters so you are never upset. - Calvin
654: %
655: Life is full of surprises but never when you need one.
656: - Calvin
657: %
658: I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and
659: happiness. - Calvin
660: %
661: "The dynamics of inter-being and mono logical imperatives in Dick and Jane :
662: A study in psychic transrelational gender modes". Academia, here I come.
663: - Calvin
664: %
665: Miss Wormwood : Calvin where was the Byzantine empire?
666: Calvin : I'll take "outer planets" for $100.
667: %
668: How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongol hordes got bored?
669: - Calvin
670: %
671: I thrive on change... I thrive on making other people change.
672: - Calvin
673: %
674: Be careful or be road-kill.
675: - Calvin
676: %
677: A good compromise leaves everyone mad.
678: - Calvin
679: %
680: Given that sooner or later we're all just going to die, what's the point of
681: learning about integers? - Calvin
682: %
683: Miss Wormwood, could we arrange our seats in a little circle and have a
684: little discussion? Specifically, I'd like to debate whether cannibalism ought
685: to be grounds for leniency in murders since it is less wasteful.
686: - Calvin
687: %
688: The only skills I have patience to learn are those that have no real
689: application in life. - Calvin
690: %
691: "You don't get to be mom if you can't fix everything just right." -Calvin
692: %
693: "Who can fathom the feminine mind?" -Calvin "I like `em anyway" -Hobbes
694: %
695: "If people could put rainbows in zoos, they'd do it." -Hobbes
696: %
697: "Summer is butter on your chin and corn mush between every tooth." -Calvin
698: %
699: "If we wanted more leisure, we'd invent machines that do things less
700: efficiently." -Calvin's dad
701: %
702: "To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible." -Calvin
703: %
704: "When life gives you a lemon, make lemonade." -Susie "I say, when life gives
705: you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own!" -Calvin
706: %
707: "If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?"
708: -Hobbes
709: %
710: "But the important thing is persistence." -Calvin trying to juggle eggs
711: %
712: "I suppose the secret to happiness is learning to appreciate the moment."
713: -Calvin
714: %
715: "Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely
716: pointless." -Calvin
717: %
718: "It's hard to be mad at someone who misses you while you're asleep." -Calvin
719: %
720: "Oops, I always forget the purpose of competition is to divide people into
721: winners and losers." -Hobbes being sarcastic
722: %
723: "Someday I'll write my own philosophy book." -Calvin
724: %
725: "Some things don't need the thought people give them." -Hobbes
726: %
727: "Mom knows EVERYTHING" -Calvin
728: %
729: "I'm a simple man with complex tastes." -Calvin
730: %
731: "Endorsing products is the American way of expressing individuality."
732: -Calvin
733: %
734: "One of the joys of being a kid is that experiences are new and therefore
735: more intense." -Calvin sniffing mustard
736: %
737: "It's great to have a friend who appreciates an earnest discussion of
738: ideas." -Calvin
739: %
740: "That's the problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying
741: to describe things of unimaginable wonder." -Calvin
742: %
743: "All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once."
744: -Hobbes
745: %
746: "I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't
747: react to a lot of life." -Hobbes
748: %
749: "I don't understand this! Not a single part of my horoscope came true! ...
750: The paper should print Mom's daily predictions. Those sure come true."
751: -Calvin
752: %
753: "I don't know which is worse, ...that everyone has his price, or that the
754: price is always so low." -Calvin
755: %
756: "I propose we leave math to the machines and go play outside."
757: - Calvin
758: %
759: It takes an uncommon mind to think of these things.
760: - Calvin
761: %
762: "That's the problem with nature, something's always stinging you
763: or oozing mucous all over you. Let's go and watch TV."
764: - Calvin
765: %
766: As a math atheist, I think I should be excused from this.
767: - Calvin, to Hobbes
768: %
769: This game lends itself to certain abuses.
770: - Calvin
771: %
772: I'm just very selective about the reality I choose to accept.
773: - Calvin
774: %
775: I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it.
776: - Calvin
777: %
778: A voice crackles in Calvin's radio:
779: "Enemy fighters at two o'clock!"
780: "Roger. What should I do until then?"
781: %
782: I'm looking for something that can deliver a 50-pound payload of snow
783: on a small feminine target. Can you suggest something? Hello...?
784: - Calvin
785: %
786: "My ethicator machine must've had a built-in moral compromise
787: spectral release phantasmatron! I'm a genius!" - Calvin
788: %
789: "That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of
790: empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder."
791: - Calvin
792: %
793: "Until you stalk and overrun, you can't devour anyone."
794: - Hobbes
795: %
796: "The inside of my head was exploding with fireworks. Fortunately,
797: my last thought turned out the lights when it left."
798: - Calvin
799: %
800: "Mom and dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I
801: believe in. But every time I do, they tell me to stop it."
802: - Calvin
803: %
804: Verbing weirds language.
805: - Calvin.
806: %
807: "The intrepid Spaceman Spiff is stranded on a distant planet!
808: ..our hero ruefully acknowledges that this happens fairly
809: frequently.." - Calvin and Hobbes