"The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century)……" — P.J. O'Rourke
"The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting."
—
P.J. O'Rourke
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
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 -…
See all 578 quotes by P.J. O'Rourke »
More Assembled Quotes
This quote is filed under Assembled Quotes,
one of 85 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose…
— Tom Robbins
-
There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts…
— Paul Broca
-
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
-
The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to…
— Robert M. Price
-
At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which…
— Unknown Author
-
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has…
— Gail Sheehy
-
But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it…
— Thomas Jefferson
-
In an age when schools are facing significant budgetary restraints, there is a greater need than ever to make chess…
— Garry Kasparov
-
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in…
— W. Somerset Maugham
-
They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there…
— Plato
-
I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
-
The crucified but risen Jesus appears in the believing, assembled community of the church. That this sense of the risen,…
— Edward Schillebeeckx
See all 85 Assembled Quotes »