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Things Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
- Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth dying for; it…
- The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.
- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners…
- Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.
- Not being a liberal, I have very little grasp of things that I know nothing about.
- If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been done already. Many…
- When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.
- I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words,
- There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.
- Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the…
- Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.
- Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there…
- Feminism is the result of a few ignorant and literal-minded women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex. Once…
- When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
- I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
- Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are…
- 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…
- Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite…
- The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often…
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- I want to tell you my heart is filled with things to say when you are here. All those words they seem… — Superman