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Dave Barry
July 3, 1947 -
Nationality: American
Category: Journalist
Subcategory: American Journalist

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

   

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

   

If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.

    Topics: Cute

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.

   

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

   

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

   

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

   

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

   

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

   

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

   

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.

   

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

   

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

   

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

   

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.

   

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

   

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

   

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.

   

We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

   

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.

   

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