In loving Memory
of my original
"Philosophy of Calvin & Hobbes"
webpage.

Lost due to a bad webspace provider,
and probably several copyright laws.
12-12-00

Calvin:  I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
 It's a Magical World, p39-2

Calvin:  I don't need to compromise my principles,
because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.
 Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons, p53-3
The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, p147-1

Calvin:  True friends are hard to come by...I need more money.
 The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes, p86

Calvin:  It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
 Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons, p19-3

Calvin:  Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination.
 The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, p26-2

Hobbes:  How come we play war and not peace?
Calvin:  Too few role models.
 The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, p72

Hobbes:  Did you ask your Mom if you could jump off the roof?
Calvin:  Questions I know the answers to I don't need to ask, right?
 The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, p75

Dad:  The world isn't fair, Calvin.
Calvin:  I know, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
 The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, p82-1

Calvin:  There's an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun it is.
 The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, p89-1

Hobbes:  Do you think there's a God?
Calvin:  Well somebody's out to get me!
 The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, p91-2

Calvin:  When I grow up, I'm not going to read the newspaper and I'm not going to follow complex
 issues and I'm not going to vote. That way I can complain when the government doesn't represent me. Then, when everything goes down the tubes, I can say the system doesn't work and justify my further lack of participation.
Hobbes:  An ingeniously self-fulfilling plan.
Calvin:  It's a lot more fun to blame things than to fix them.
 The Days are Just Packed, p78-2

Calvin:  The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!
 The Days are Just Packed, p79

Calvin:  The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity the tell the difference.
 The Days are Just Packed, p137-1

Calvin:  I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
 Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, p62-2
The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, p184-1

Calvin:  You know how people are. They only recognize greatness when some authority confirms it.
 Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, p109-1
The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, p180-1

Calvin:  The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.
 Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, p142-2

Calvin:  From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do!
The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success.... I'm just here to cash in.
 Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, p145-2

Calvin:  History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that
events are knowable and that life has order and direction.
That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
 Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, p152-1

Calvin:  It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.
 Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, p172

Hobbes:  The best presents don't come in boxes.
 The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes, p20

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