1,059 Quotes by Dave Barry

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    England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

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    I figured out why I'm not getting seriously rich. I write newspaper columns. Nobody ever makes newspaper columns into Major Motion Pictures starring Tom Cruise. The best you can hope for, with a newspaper column, is that people will like it enough to attach it to their refrigerators with magnets shaped like fruit.

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    As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales.

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    Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.

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    In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion.

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    Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask whether your country has been inhaling paint-thinner fumes.

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    I'm not saying that women don't think about sex also. I'm saying that women are capable, for at least brief periods of time, of not thinking about sex, and that most guys are not.

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    England is a very popular foreign country to visit because the people there speak some English.

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    The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

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