"Socially prominent people are very fond of disease,……" — Dave Barry
"Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines say 'EVENING IN PARIS BALL RAISES MONEY TO FIGHT GOUT' instead of 'RICH PEOPLE AMUSE THEMSELVES'."
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508 Quotes by Dave Barry
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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 Amuse Quotes
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
— Helen Gurley Brown
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I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
— Hillary Clinton
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That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother…
— Irene Joliot-Curie
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The…
— Susan Sontag
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... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers…
— Maria Montessori
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Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a…
— Swami Vivekananda
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes…
— Seneca the Elder
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Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
— Isaac Asimov
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse…
— Aubrey Beardsley
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Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even…
— Jeff Hardy
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to…
— Joseph de Maistre
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