"The three branches of government number considerably more……" — P.J. O'Rourke
"The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is something they are all attached to besides self-aggrandizement and our pocketbooks. ... Government is not a machine with parts; it's an organism. When does an intestine quit being an intestine and start becoming an asshole?"
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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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The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought…
— Thomas Paine
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They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white…
— William Faulkner
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It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
— James Madison
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call…
— William A. Clark
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Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation,…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one…
— Glen Cook
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In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying…
— Heather Donahue
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The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every…
— Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger
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Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is…
— Erich Fromm
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