Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies. — P. J. O'Rourke Company Copy Share Image
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. — P. J. O'Rourke Government Copy Share Image
Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there. — P. J. O'Rourke Africa Copy Share Image
People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner. — P. J. O'Rourke Men Copy Share Image
The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.' — P. J. O'Rourke Age Copy Share Image
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. — P. J. O'Rourke Books Copy Share Image
I remember thinking cocaine was subtle until I noticed I'd been awake for three weeks and didn't know any of the naked… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal… — P. J. O'Rourke Advice Copy Share Image
“The sternest commissar and the wildest hippie both share the same daydream: that a thing can be worth other than people are… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to collectivists, to people who believe that wealth is best obtained by redistribution, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder,… — P. J. O'Rourke Art Copy Share Image
They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets… — P. J. O'Rourke Climate Copy Share Image
The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to… — P. J. O'Rourke Adolescent Copy Share Image
The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth… — P. J. O'Rourke Age Copy Share Image
Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is… — P. J. O'Rourke Bachelor Copy Share Image
In England, all the English car companies were beginning to circle the drain in a series of well-deserved failures and bankruptcies, earned… — P. J. O'Rourke Bankruptcy Copy Share Image
Government usually doesn't work. It doesn't work because it is political. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need… — P. J. O'Rourke Differences Copy Share Image
It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The Vietnamese Hoa were merchants and manufacturers. They were very successful and thus, according to the logic of Marxism, responsible for society's… — P. J. O'Rourke Army Copy Share Image
Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people… — P. J. O'Rourke America Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent! — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
[Michael] Moore doesn't really use his sense of humor that much. — P. J. O'Rourke Comedy Copy Share Image
![“Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in a world where certain conservative aspects had become intellectually dominant. I would actually argue against that, but on the surface of it, in the [Bill] Clinton years…” quote by P. J. O'Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb5/p-j-o-rourke-184_20th-century_seriously-it-was-running-out-at-rolling_1366968.jpg)
![“[Michael] Moore doesn't really use his sense of humor that much.” quote by P. J. O'Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a0/p-j-o-rourke-184_comedy_michael-moore-doesn-t-really-use-his-sen_2499458.png)
