"In the words of a very famous dead……" — Dave Barry
"In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test."
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508 Quotes by Dave Barry
Dave Barry has 508 quotes on this site.
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Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the…
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The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management…
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'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.
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The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look…
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out…
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The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
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The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
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Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers…
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Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only…
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More Aptitude Quotes
This quote is filed under Aptitude Quotes,
one of 102 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
— Anton Chekhov
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The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all…
— Denis Waitley
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Your attitude is more important that your aptitude.
— Zig Ziglar
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In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who…
— Proclus
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Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a…
— Nelson Mandela
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The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the…
— Wilfred Trotter
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Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into…
— Ken Robinson
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In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness.
— Norm MacDonald
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I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of…
— Samuel Johnson
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If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise…
— Herbert Spencer
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People who don't have the interest or aptitude for serious college studies at age 18 may find that later in…
— George Leef
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