"The question is, why are politicians so eager……" — Dave Barry
"The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?"
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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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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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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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When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes…
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This deal is a sugar-coated satan sandwich. If you lift the bun, you will not like what you see.
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I don't try to be candy coated. I don't try to walk on eggshells. I am what I am. Love…
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Disney Channel is celebrities coated in sugar. Everything is really happy; everything is really bright.
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Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the…
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In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet,--deceit sugar-coated.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than…
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Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have…
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When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I…
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