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Top 500 Dave Barry Quotes (2024 Update)
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Dave Barry Quote: “I also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop World Wide Web sites in a frantic scramble to reach the vast new consumer market of Web use.”
Dave Barry Quote: “The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.”
Dave Barry Quote: “American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.”
Dave Barry Quote: “Smee! Raise the Ladies!”
Dave Barry Quote: “England manufactures most of the world’s airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.”
Dave Barry Quote: “One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium.”
Dave Barry Quote: “I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.”
Dave Barry Quote: “The fact that Gene Weingarten and I and Bathroom Inventory are now part of some kind of Matrix of Poop strongly suggests that the Pulitzer is not what it once was.”
Dave Barry Quote: “I watched as an extremely nerdy exhibitor – I’m talking about a guy who makes Bill Gates look like Brad Pitt...”
Dave Barry Quote: “The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.”
Dave Barry Quote: “Editorials are written by people who have agreed to have several strong opinions a day and to write them down, provided they do not have to sign their names.”
Dave Barry Quote: “This ball was so crowded that it took me – a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area – forty five minutes to get a beer.”
Dave Barry Quote: “To better understand why you need a personal computer, let’s take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.”
Dave Barry Quote: “I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened.”
Dave Barry Quote: “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 that could easily be carried on a commercial airline flight.”
Dave Barry Quote: “What I like best about the telephone is that it keeps you in touch with people, particularly people who want to sell you magazine subscriptions in the middle of the night.”
Dave Barry Quote: “This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat content.”
Dave Barry Quote: “Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he’s naked, but I’m afraid to find out.”
Dave Barry Quote: “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 American junior-high-school students, only with fewer guns.”
Dave Barry Quote: “Molly happy see Ammm,” she said. The Porpoise language has 237 words that mean “happy,” and Molly had actually chosen the one denoting the happiness derived from having one’s belly tickled by seaweed.”
Dave Barry Quote: “When Prince Charles speaks, everybody pretends to be fascinated, even though he has never said anything interesting except in that intercepted telephone conversation wherein he expressed the desire to be a feminine hygeine product.”
Dave Barry Quote: “If you were to open up a baby’s head – and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should – you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.”
Dave Barry Quote: “I’ve never actually given birth to a child, but I suspect that going to a Justin Bieber concert with a child is close.”
Dave Barry Quote: “Famous designers think nothing of putting their names on your clothing, but would have the servants set the dogs on you if you ever tried to put your name on their clothing.”
Dave Barry Quote: “What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.”
Dave Barry Quote: “Before going on a diet you should consult your doctor, or at least send him some money.”
Dave Barry Quote: “There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.”
Dave Barry Quote: “For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.”
Dave Barry Quote: “I guess libertarianism is always considered so weird and fringe that people assume that you’re in the closet if you don’t go around talking about it.”
Dave Barry Quote: “When I say ‘serve you better,’ I mean ‘increase our profits.’ We newspapers are very big on profits these days.”
Dave Barry Quote: “You can, legally, possibly hit and kill a fellow golfer with a ball, and there will not be a lot of trouble because the other golfers will refuse to stop and be witnesses because they will want to keep playing.”
Dave Barry Quote: “I can’t recall a story that played out exactly as I’d expected it to. That’s one of the thrills of journalism – being surprised, and learning new stuff, but it also poses the biggest challenge to a writer’s character.”
Dave Barry Quote: “People are afraid to own their own homes. People are afraid their own government will catch them fixing their houses.”
Dave Barry Quote: “Don’t emphasise money if you don’t have much; be happy.”
Dave Barry Quote: “Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane. If I spent all my hours writing things like “Fatal Distraction,” I’d become a brooding, erratic melancholic. I’d be Raskolnikov.”
Dave Barry Quote: “Stache’s attack was perfectly timed, thanks to his veteran-pirate grasp tactics – and a big piece if luck.”
Dave Barry Quote: “Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O’Hare.”
Dave Barry Quote: “Unless you live in Indonesia, there should be several malls within five miles of your home. It makes no difference whatsoever which one you go to: Under federal law, all malls in the United States must have the same 42 chain stores.”
Dave Barry Quote: “I want to gag sometimes when I see who “we” are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.”
Dave Barry Quote: “They looked plainly scared, except for one, a wiry boy with bright orange hair – not the largest of the lot, but the one who seemed to be in charge. He had an air about him, Alf thought, the look of a boy who doesn’t miss much.”
Dave Barry Quote: “Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.”
Dave Barry Quote: “If the people in Europe are SOOOOOO smart, how come so many of them can’t seem to locate the deodorant, huh?”
Dave Barry Quote: “I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.”
Dave Barry Quote: “I don’t know what you can possibly do for less than $50 to have somebody come in your house.”
Dave Barry Quote: “Many, many of you have written to me asking the following question: ‘Dave, have their been any new advancements in the field of artificial falcon insemination, and could these developments be used to improve the American electoral process?’”
Dave Barry Quote: “The term SAT is a set of initials, or autonym, standing for Scholastic Attitude Treaty Organization.”
Dave Barry Quote: “Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.”
Dave Barry Quote: “There was nowhere to sit except the bunk, which was covered with rotting food, and a wooden stool, upon which sat a large fur-covered lump – an old cheese, perhaps, or a dead cat.”
Dave Barry Quote: “New houses, which are crap, because they don’t build them the way they used to anymore. Old houses, which used to be good, because they were built back when they built them the way they used to, but which today, as a result of being old, are crap. So whichever kind of house you own, it’s going to be some variety of crap, which means sooner or later everything in it will break. Dealing with broken things is the essence of home ownership, and it’s exhausting.”
Dave Barry Quote: “And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople get ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.”
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