Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

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About Dave Barry

Portrait of Dave Barry

David McAlister Barry (born 3 July 1947) is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels and children's novels. Barry's honors include the Pulitzer...

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I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.

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Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

More quotations tagged with “trees”

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

—Ambrose Bierce

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

—Susan George

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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

—Henry Ward Beecher

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

—Edward Abbey

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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

—Willa Cather