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Trying Quotes by Dave Barry
- We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
- Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
- And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came…
- Talking about golf is always boring. Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the…
- Please try not to be such a wiener-head.
- Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died trying to visit…
- Dating means doing a lot of fun things you will never do again if you get married. The fun stops with marriage because you're trying…
- Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by…
- I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S.…
- The Internet "browser"... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and…
- Unlike cats dogs never scratch you when you wash them. They just become very sad and try to figure out what they did wrong.
- A critical function that we journalists perform at political conventions is to try to get into parties that we have not been invited to. There…
- You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying…
- Babies are equipped at birth with a number of instinctive reflexes and behavior patterns that cause them to spend their first several years trying to…
- Earnest is our dog. She senses instantly that something is wrong, and guided by that timeless and unerring nurturing instinct that all female dogs have,…
- ... Once you're safely in the mall, you should tie your children to you with ropes so the other shoppers won't try to buy them.…
- As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that…
- Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
- Think, for a moment, of the countless happy childhood hours you spent with this amazing device: Drawing perfect horizontals, drawing perfect verticals, drawing really spastic…
- The Mollusks—generous hosts when they weren’t trying to kill you.
More Trying Quotes
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all. — Swami Vivekananda
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- One of the great thing that A Christian can do is to draw closer to GOD inspite of all the hindrances. I… — Pacifiersucker
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your… — Rowan Atkinson