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Who Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
- I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us…
- Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
- Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not…
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.
- Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.
- I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the…
- Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American…
- In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank,…
- We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
- The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of…
- The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep…
- Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter…
- Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest…
- For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the…
- Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe,…
- The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious…
More Who Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle