Better Quotes by P. J. O'Rourke

12 Better quotes by P. J. O'Rourke

P. J. O'Rourke’s humor shines through his take on improvement, turning the quest for a better life into a series of clever, bite‑sized musings that keep you smiling while you think.

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A lot of things work better in a locomotive.

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The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.

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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look…

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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.

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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.

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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.

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I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I…

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I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency…

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Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously…

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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd…

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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not…

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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone…

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Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.

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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such…

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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've…

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I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

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Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people…

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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.

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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.

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