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- Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and…
- For toddlers I suggest leaving their mittens on year-round, indoors and out. That way they can't get into aspirin bottles, liquor cabinets, or boxes of…
- The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand.…
- There's a lot of debate on this subject - about what kind of car handles best. Some say a a front-engined car, some say a…
- Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to…
- How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets…
- Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery,…
- We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of criminalization.…
- The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The…
- Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on…
- .......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their…
- Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!
- If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words,…
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.
- I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
- No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all…
- A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.
- The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics…
- Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.
- We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong