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Way Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- 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…
- 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…
- I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really…
- Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way…
- That doesn't mean that you should just sit back and just let accidents happen to you. No, you have to go out and cause them…
- Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.
- Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.
- Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities.…
- Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for…
- Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free— indeed, sanctimonious— way for progressives to be racists.
- And, by the way, how come all the people who were so in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament are so opposed to unilateral protection against…
- America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon…
- The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra.…
- I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the…
- A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do…
- Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government,…
- There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence…
- 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 inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they…
- 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…
- Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over…
- Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin.
- Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own…
- The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag…
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- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a… — J. J. Abrams
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen