Calvin Quotes

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont. (Clarence Darrow)
Of Scotland That knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur. View quote
Sydney Smith
Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt don't wear clothes with your name on it, so why should you wear their name? View quote
Mr. T
Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin. View quote
Bill Watterson
Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions. View quote
Bill Watterson
Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you cant add some guilt to it and make it even worse. View quote
Bill Watterson
When I see guys in bars wearing the real fitted kind of Calvin Klein v-neck t-shirts I just want to go up to them and be like, 'Oh, do you work out? Your tricep looks so great - thank you.' View quote
Janeane Garofalo
Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That's why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith. View quote
John Piper
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips. View quote
Bill Griffith
Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece. View quote
Bill Griffith
If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns. (Djimon Hounsou)
I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein. View quote
Michael Bergin
I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over The Onion or Calvin and Hobbes. That was considered completely normal. View quote
Simon Rich
I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did. The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom you and I acknowledge and adore, the Creator and benevolent governor of the world; but a daemon of malignant spirit. It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all, than to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin. Indeed I think that every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I am convinced with Plato, with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin, and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and every smallest portion of it, exactly fulfils the purpose for which Almighty God designed it. View quote
James Anthony Froude
"God is just and punishes us; that is all we need to know; as far as we are concerned the rest is merely curiosity." Such was the conclusion of Lamennais (Essai, etc., partie, chap. vii.), an opinion shared by many others. Calvin also held the same view. But is there anyone content with this? Pure curiosity! - to call this load that well nigh crushes our heart pure curiosity! View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked. View quote
Kate Moss
And I says back to him, "Calvin, sounding like an educated man don't make you educated,” and he says back to me, "I'd rather be ignorant and sound educated than be educated and sound ignorant,” and I said, "Why?” and he says to me, "Because if you sound educated then nobody ever tests you to find out, but if you sound ignorant they never stop.”. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Calvin, what kind of trouble are you planning to make?” "No trouble at all,” said Calvin, annoyed. "Why do you think I want to cause trouble? View quote
Orson Scott Card
You think this because you are a nasty person by nature, Calvin, and you don't understand nice people. To you, the end of existence is to control things, and so you will never build anything, but rather will try to take control of what is already in existence. Your brother, though, is by nature a Maker, as you explain it; therefore he cares nothing about who rules, but only about what exists. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Today, the Panzer-like Bush machine controls all three branches of our federal government, the first time that has happened since Calvin Coolidge was in the White House. And that makes it just about impossible to mount any kind of Congressional investigation of a firmly-entrenched president like George Bush. The time has come to get deeply into football. It is the only thing we have left that ain't fixed. (Hunter S. Thompson)
Like many New Englanders - he was a neighbor of Calvin Coolidge's in Northampton - he finds life a serious business. But he's never - well - heavy about it. View quote
Irene Dunne
The thing was not discussable, even with a near acquaintance like Calvin because ... because of the nature of the thing ... because one had to behave like a normal, unworried human being. That at least was sound and clear and gave him comfort: behave like a normal human being. View quote
Brian Aldiss
What in Calvin had been a qualified concession to practical exigencies appeared in some of his later followers as a frank idealization of the life of the trader, as the service of God and the training-ground of the soul. Discarding the suspicion of economic motives, which had been as characteristic of the reformers as of medieval theologians, Puritanism in its later phases added a halo of ethical sanctification to the appeal of economic expediency, and offered a moral creed, in which the duties of religion and the calls of business ended their long estrangement in an unanticipated reconciliation. View quote
R. H. Tawney
Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles. View quote
Cardinal Richelieu