-You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. -What mood is th...
CALVIN HOBBES Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?
CALVIN HOBBES Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that non...
CALVIN HOBBES [At first, I just randomly turned the pages. Page 95, Volume 1, Calvin and Hobbes are sitting under ...
CALVIN HOBBES People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up wi...
CALVIN HOBBES Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.
CALVIN HOBBES Girls are like slugs. They serve some purpose but it's hard to imagine what.
CALVIN HOBBES #VALUE!
CALVIN HOBBES We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are...
CALVIN HOBBES Who was the first guy that look at a cow and said," I think that I'll drink whatever comes out of th...
CALVIN HOBBES Careful. We don't want to learn from this.
CALVIN & HOBBES I can't tell if that's funny or really scary.
CALVIN & HOBBES Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
CALVIN & HOBBES I wonder if I can grow fangs when my baby teeth fall out.
CALVIN & HOBBES What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero
CALVIN & HOBBES Don't walk away! I'm trying to apologize you dumb noodleloaf!
CALVIN & HOBBES What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?
CALVIN & HOBBES County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the probl...
CALVIN & HOBBES Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?
CALVIN & HOBBES Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of borin...
CALVIN & HOBBES Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'...
CALVIN & HOBBES - "I've been thinking Hobbes --"- "On a weekend?"- "Well, it wasn't on purpose..."
CALVIN & HOBBES Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.
CALVIN & HOBBES Girls are like slugs. They serve some purpose but it's hard to imagine what.
CALVIN & HOBBES People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up wi...
CALVIN & HOBBES Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.
CALVIN & HOBBES We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are...
CALVIN & HOBBES History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has or...
CALVIN & HOBBES Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that non...
CALVIN & HOBBES Unfortunately for my report, mom caught me and I didn't get to see how it ended.
CALVIN & HOBBES -You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. -What mood is th...
CALVIN & HOBBES I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be to...
CALVIN & HOBBES Who was the first guy that look at a cow and said," I think that I'll drink whatever comes out of th...
CALVIN & HOBBES [At first, I just randomly turned the pages. Page 95, Volume 1, Calvin and Hobbes are sitting under ...
CALVIN & HOBBES - "I've been thinking Hobbes --"- "On a weekend?"- "Well, it wasn't on purpose..."
CALVIN & HOBBES Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
CALVIN & HOBBES Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'...
CALVIN & HOBBES Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.
CALVIN & HOBBES -You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
-What mood ...
CALVIN & HOBBES We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are...
CALVIN & HOBBES So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon ...
CALVIN & HOBBES Have faith in your dreams and someday your rainbow will come smiling through. No matter how your hea...
CALVIN & HOBBES Mothers of Teenagers Know Why Animals Eat Their Young
CALVIN & HOBBES Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
CALVIN & HOBBES Careful. We don't want to learn from this.
CALVIN & HOBBES Who was the first guy that look at a cow and said," I think that I'll drink whatever comes out of th...
CALVIN & HOBBES Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that non...
CALVIN & HOBBES What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero
CALVIN & HOBBES - "I've been thinking Hobbes --"
- "On a weekend?"
- "Well, it wasn't on purpose..."
CALVIN & HOBBES History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has or...
CALVIN & HOBBES Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of borin...
CALVIN & HOBBES Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?
CALVIN & HOBBES People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up wi...
CALVIN & HOBBES Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.
CALVIN & HOBBES Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a waste of dreaming, and dre...
CALVIN & HOBBES To dream of a person you would like to be is to waste the person you are
CALVIN & HOBBES I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be to...
CALVIN & HOBBES The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you...
CALVIN & HOBBES Unfortunately for my report, mom caught me and I didn't get to see how it ended.
CALVIN & HOBBES I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each other's dreams, we'...
HOBBES The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodie...
THOMAS HOBBES Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBES There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is ...
THOMAS HOBBES No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
THOMAS HOBBES Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
THOMAS HOBBES Words are the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...
THOMAS HOBBES The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the p...
THOMAS HOBBES Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
THOMAS HOBBES The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as w...
THOMAS HOBBES Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or mo...
THOMAS HOBBES Give an inch, he'll take an ell.
THOMAS HOBBES No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because life itself is ...
THOMAS HOBBES Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals.....
THOMAS HOBBES Pleasure therefore, (or Delight,) is the appearance or sense of Good; and Molestation or Displeasure...
THOMAS HOBBES Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ...
THOMAS HOBBES The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition ...
THOMAS HOBBES War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will ...
THOMAS HOBBES A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, ...
THOMAS HOBBES Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of deligh...
THOMAS HOBBES The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as...
THOMAS HOBBES In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
THOMAS HOBBES Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.
THOMAS HOBBES I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBES Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equal...
THOMAS HOBBES The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
THOMAS HOBBES Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
THOMAS HOBBES The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.
THOMAS HOBBES The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only.
THOMAS HOBBES Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
THOMAS HOBBES For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed ...
THOMAS HOBBES Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. •Thomas Hobbe...
THOMAS HOBBES Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
THOMAS HOBBES Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
THOMAS HOBBES That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he s...
THOMAS HOBBES It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
THOMAS HOBBES The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
THOMAS HOBBES The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for th...
THOMAS HOBBES When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provid...
THOMAS HOBBES He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an...
THOMAS HOBBES The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, w...
THOMAS HOBBES During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions...
THOMAS HOBBES A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
THOMAS HOBBES Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ou...
THOMAS HOBBES They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet here...
THOMAS HOBBES All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute bea...
THOMAS HOBBES Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent
THOMAS HOBBES The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave ...
THOMAS HOBBES Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBES They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet here...
THOMAS HOBBES Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
THOMAS HOBBES The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
THOMAS HOBBES How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained fr...
THOMAS HOBBES Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more indiv...
THOMAS HOBBES Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more...
THOMAS HOBBES Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
THOMAS HOBBES Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all. The bonds of...
THOMAS HOBBES Hell is truth seen too late.
THOMAS HOBBES Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight...
THOMAS HOBBES As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
THOMAS HOBBES The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent goo...
THOMAS HOBBES No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: But they are the money of fools, that val...
THOMAS HOBBES All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of t...
THOMAS HOBBES The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but t...
THOMAS HOBBES I am about to take my last voyage. A great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBES The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
THOMAS HOBBES The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only
THOMAS HOBBES It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law
THOMAS HOBBES No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent dea...
THOMAS HOBBES Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casu...
THOMAS HOBBES Scientia potentia est.

Knowledge is power.
THOMAS HOBBES So that in the nature of man,
we find three principal causes of quarrel:

First, Comp...
THOMAS HOBBES For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pr...
THOMAS HOBBES Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the for...
THOMAS HOBBES A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able...
THOMAS HOBBES The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some ...
THOMAS HOBBES Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
JOHN OLIVER HOBBES Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.
JOHN OLIVER HOBBES When a man forgets his ideals, he may hope for happiness, but not till then
JOHN OLIVER HOBBES A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly ...
JOHN OLIVER HOBBES Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
CALVIN KLEIN We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the thi...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
CALVIN COOLIDGE To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London...
CALVIN HARRIS However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes...
JOHN CALVIN I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. an...
CALVIN HARRIS People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues...
CALVIN TRILLIN I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
CALVIN TRILLIN We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't ge...
CALVIN TRILLIN If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not f...
CALVIN TRILLIN There's always a source for humor.
CALVIN TRILLIN I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
CALVIN TRILLIN What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it ...
CALVIN TRILLIN The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just th...
CALVIN TRILLIN When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
CALVIN TRILLIN I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
CALVIN TRILLIN What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
CALVIN TRILLIN The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
CALVIN TRILLIN When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
CALVIN TRILLIN Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.
CALVIN TRILLIN You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poe...
CALVIN TRILLIN I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant m...
CALVIN TRILLIN When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the ...
CALVIN TRILLIN I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
CALVIN TRILLIN I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
CALVIN TRILLIN As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like ...
CALVIN TRILLIN I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
CALVIN TRILLIN I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous.
CALVIN KLEIN Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.
CALVIN KLEIN I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.
CALVIN KLEIN It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more th...
CALVIN KLEIN I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that&#...
CALVIN KLEIN I don't think about my fame very much.
CALVIN KLEIN AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribu...
CALVIN KLEIN I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
CALVIN KLEIN Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
CALVIN KLEIN I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My...
CALVIN KLEIN I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like gra...
CALVIN KLEIN I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
CALVIN KLEIN I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
CALVIN KLEIN I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and ...
CALVIN KLEIN I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
CALVIN KLEIN If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
CALVIN KLEIN I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
CALVIN KLEIN You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried ...
CALVIN KLEIN It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.
CALVIN KLEIN Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
CALVIN KLEIN I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.
CALVIN KLEIN I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
CALVIN KLEIN The team doctor, the team trainers, they work for the team. And I love 'em, you know. They'r...
CALVIN JOHNSON It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career...
CALVIN JOHNSON Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you k...
CALVIN JOHNSON If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
CALVIN JOHNSON You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see th...
CALVIN JOHNSON I'm just a worker.
CALVIN JOHNSON