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High Quotes by Dave Barry
- 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…
- Until I became a parent, I thought children just naturally knew how to catch a ball, that catching was an instinctive biological reflex that all…
- There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.
- England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.
- I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the same height as…
- It is an inconvenience, being located in a city where taxes are ludicrously high, where you pay twice your annual income to rent an apartment…
- We constantly see surveys that reveal this ignorance, especially among our high school students,78 percent of whom, in a recent nationwide multiple-choice test, identified Abraham…
- If women were in charge of all the world's nations, there would be sincerely believe this - no military conflicts, and when there WAS a…
More High Quotes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good… — Diane Ackerman
- Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing… — Will Self
- In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and… — Edward de Bono
- The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause… — Al Alvarez
- A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities… — Niccolo Machiavelli