"Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the……" — P.J. O'Rourke
"Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising."
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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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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
— Saint Basil
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
— Buffalo Bill
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle…
— Robert Burns
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It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from…
— R. H. Tawney
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
— Pliny the Elder
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures.…
— Pema Chodron
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How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes…
— Epicurus
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Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.
— Mason Cooley
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Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.
— William Stanley Jevons
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
— Lucretius
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