"Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and……" — P.J. O'Rourke
"Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship."
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578 Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
P.J. O'Rourke has 578 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it…
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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…
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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…
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You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak -…
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Immigrant families have integrated themselves into our communities, establishing deep roots. Whenever they have settled, they have made lasting contributions…
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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Ringing assurance that we are not alone... That we are assisted and defended by a powerful and glorious order of…
— Billy Graham
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Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have…
— Benjamin Rush
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First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal…
— George W. Bush
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As believers, how can we fail to see that abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are a terrible rejection of God's…
— Pope John Paul II
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Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation…
— Gary Bauer
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Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Grace, lavished upon us by God and communicated through the Mystery of the Incarnate Word, is an absolutely free gift…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose…
— Albert Allen Bartlett
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Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in…
— George Washington
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Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack.…
— Thomas Jefferson
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