“If you can't win by reason, go for volume.”

— Bill Watterson

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "If you can't win by reason, go for volume." by Bill Watterson?

Bill Watterson165

American comic artist 1958

Related quotes

“Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the fucking game.”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

Interview with Gary K. Wolfe (28 July 1987), quoted in Harlan Ellison : The Edge of Forever (2002), by Ellen Weil and Gary K. Wolfe
Borrowing a common scientific joke expressing the laws of thermodynamics.

“You can't win with a losing hand”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, The Essential Bob Dylan (2000), Things Have Changed (recorded 1999)

“Letterman: "Oh, stop it! Will you stop? Ladies and gentlemen, turn down your volume. Turn down the volume immediately! She can't be stopped! There's something wrong with her!"”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

On The Late Show with David Letterman (1994)

“1. You can't win. 2. You can't break even. 3. You can't even get out of the game.”

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet

Several publications attribute the quote to Ginsberg, probably the first one is The Coevolution Quarterly in 1975 [Google books https://books.google.it/books?id=MylJAQAAIAAJ&q=%22ginsberg%27s+theorem%22&dq=%22ginsberg%27s+theorem%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y], but there's is no evidence whatsoever that he ever pronounced it. A more detailed analysis can be found in this post https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/you_cant_win_you_cant_break_even/ <br class="br">Misattributed, Ginsberg's theorem