"Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins……" — P.J. O'Rourke
"Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day."
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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 Babylon Quotes
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan…
— Bertrand Russell
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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must…
— George Eliot
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The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building…
— Linda Goodman
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Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over…
— Bill Mumy
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I was doing Babylon 5 season two and I was in all 22 episodes of that.
— Bill Mumy
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Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex…
— Camille Paglia
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I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort…
— Andy Serkis
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Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it…
— Alistair Cooke
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It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure…
— Clive Bell
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Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before…
— John Gould Fletcher
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After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They…
— George Q. Cannon
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Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament…
— William Wordsworth
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