"Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone……" — P.J. O'Rourke
"Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is."
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P.J. O'Rourke
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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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More Consist Quotes
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
— Aristotle
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
— Charles Babbage
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of…
— Louise Brooks
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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
— Coco Chanel
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Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can…
— Cesar Chavez
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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.
— Unknown Author
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Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley…
— John Playfair
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Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles…
— Mary Hunter Austin
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Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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