Quotes - Favorites

What if nothing exists and we're
all in somebody's dream?
- Woody Allen

"Judge a man by his questions
rather than his answers."
- Voltaire

When an elderly and distinguished scientist tells
you that something is possible, he is very probably
right. When he tells you that something is impossible,
he is very probably wrong.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

Things are not bad in themselves,
but our cowardice makes them so.
- Michel de Montaigne

God put me on this earth to accomplish a
certain number of things. Right now I am
so far behind that I will never die.
- Bill Watterson

Quotaria

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think,
every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every
day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.
It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
- Christopher Morley

It seems like once people grow up,
they have no idea what's cool.
- Bill Watterson

"Play: Work that you enjoy
doing for nothing."
- Evan Esar

"If you make people think they're thinking,
they'll love you; But if you really make
them think, they'll hate you."
- Don Marquis

"We learn something every day,
and lots of times it's that what
we learned the day before was wrong."
- Bill Vaughan

"Politics is the skilled
use of blunt objects."
- Lester B. Pearson

Quotaria

It seems like once people grow up,
they have no idea what's cool.
- Bill Watterson

Cherish all your happy moments: they
make a fine cushion for old age.
- Christopher Morley

I think it's the duty of the comedian
to find out where the line is drawn
and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin

Special-interest publications should realize that if
they are attracting enough advertising and readers
to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
- Fran Lebowitz

He who praises you for what you lack
wishes to take from you what you have.
- Don Juan Manuel

"The significance of man is that he
is insignificant and is aware of it."
- Carl Becker

Quotaria

"If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't
know what a millionaire looked like."
- Phyllis Diller

"When you are through
changing, you are through."
- Bruce Barton

"America is a mistake,
a giant mistake."
- Sigmund Freud

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and
theories for which we have no use.
- William James

The surest sign that intelligent life
exists elsewhere in the universe is
that it has never tried to contact us.
- Bill Watterson

"My theology, briefly, is that the
universe was dictated but not signed."
- Christopher Morley

Quotes

"Spring is when you feel
like whistling even with
a shoe full of slush."
- Doug Larson

"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is
that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later;
in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."
- Charles Bukowski

"Advice is what we ask for when we already
know the answer but wish we didn't."
- Erica Jong

"It is impossible to imagine
Goethe or Beethoven being
good at billiards or golf."
- H. L. Mencken

Weekends don't count unless you spend them
doing something completely pointless.
- Bill Watterson

Life is a foreign language;
all men mispronounce it.
- Christopher Morley

Quotaria - Oneliners

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
- Jean Giraudoux

Men who never get carried away should be.
- Malcolm Forbes

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
- Rita Mae Brown

Mothers are the necessity of invention.
- Bill Watterson

In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin

"You've got to take the bitter with the sour."
- Samuel Goldwyn

Quotes - Bill Watterson

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

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent
life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none
of it has tried to contact us.
- Bill Watterson

Talking with you is sort of the conversational
equivalent of an out of body experience.
- Bill Watterson

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.
- Bill Watterson

There is not enough time to do
all the nothing we want to do.
- Bill Watterson

Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and
said, "I think I'll drink whatever comes out
of these things when I squeeze 'em!"?
- Bill Watterson