1,059 Quotes by Dave Barry

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    Today’s beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

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    The Mollusks – generous hosts when they weren’t trying to kill you.

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    The great thing about golf – and this is the reason why a lot of health experts like me recommend it – you can drink beer and ride in a cart while you play.

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    Roy Blount, who is the funniest person I know, journeys deep into the dark heart of humor and brings back a wonderfully insightful, superbly crafted song of the soul that had me laughing and crying too.

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    Real cars were made here in America: Fords, Chevys, Plymouths. These were large chunks of Detroit iron – cars that had the size, weight, and handling characteristics of aircraft carriers but worse fuel efficiency.

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    Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an enormous open sewer...

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    One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don’t even exist yet.

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    I haven’t been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

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    Genes are little items that are found in every living thing except Sen. Alfonse D’Amato.

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