"People are not ants or bees. We do……" — P.J. O'Rourke

"People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively."

— 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. A few more worth reading:

Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your…
Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
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…
There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it…
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The…
Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.
Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.
Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very…
You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak -…

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More Ants Quotes

This quote is filed under Ants Quotes, one of 253 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. — Mortimer Adler
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants. — A. S. Byatt
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. — Jonathan Carroll
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's… — Adam Ant
No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars. — Victor Hugo
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus… — Charles Darwin
There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has… — Winston Churchill
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird,… — E. O. Wilson
Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no… — Clarence Day
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and… — Murray Rothbard
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. — Gerald Brenan

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