Quote by Dave Barry
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unle

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

Other quotes by Dave Barry

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. – Dave Barry

Category:
Dieting
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Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons. – Dave Barry

Category:
Weeds
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Other Quotes from
Violence
category

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. – Marshall Rosenberg

Category:
Violence

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
Violence

Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet. – Daniel Webster

Category:
Violence

Who has not hoped
To outrage an enemys dignity?
Who has not been swept
By the wish to hurt?
And who has not thought that the impersonal world
Deserves no better than to be destroyed
By one fabulous sign of his displeasure? – Jacob Bronowski

Category:
Violence

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I like my wine like my women – ready to pass out. – Robin Williams

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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. – G.K. Chesterton

Category:
America

I dont like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV. – Kathy Griffin

Category:
movies

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and thats what Im doing. – Andrew Cuomo

Category:
Government