Fun With Dave Barry

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

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.

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

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

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

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.

Freedom

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speech, September 22, 1936

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)