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One Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human…
- When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.
- One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It…
- The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them…
- When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power…
- 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…
- This is the most elaborate and luxurious method of convincing others that you can cook. Take everybody out on your yacht until they're green in…
- There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.
- One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.
- Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.
- Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing…
- Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.
- Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.
- The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy - a conspiracy of Safety Nazis shouting "Sieg…
- In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of…
- There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.
- There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
- Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
- I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
- As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when…
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