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P.J. O'Rourke has 585 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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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…
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Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
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The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much,…
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There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our…
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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is…
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Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.
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Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.
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Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It…
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You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you…
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We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
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I don't want to be 'the girl with cancer'... I just didn't want that to be my only thing. But it is…
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a…
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Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands…
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The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night, Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation:…
— Walt Whitman
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West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as…
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I'm not pert and perky anymore - when you're over 60, it's 'feisty.
— Sandy Duncan
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I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant…
— Belva Plain
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It has to be now,” he insisted, a flick of amusement in his voice. He nudged his burgeoning loins against her. “After…
— Lisa Kleypas
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You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom,…
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