David Barry, Jr. (born July 3, 1947) is a bestselling American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist who wrote a nationally syndicated column for the The Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005.
Barry was born in Armonk, New York. He was educated at Pleasantville High School where he was elected class clown in 1965. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Haverford College in 1969.
As the son of a minister and an alumnus of a Quaker-affiliated college, Barry avoided military service during the Vietnam War by registering as a religious conscientious objector.
1. A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
2. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
3. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
4. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.
5. You should not confuse your career with your life.
6. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
7. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."
8. There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
9. Your friends love you anyway.
10. Never be afraid to try something new just remember that a lone amateur built the Ark and a large group of professionals built the Titanic.
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