"When the government runs out of lenders, it……" — P.J. O'Rourke
"When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money."
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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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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
— Karen Armstrong
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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself…
— Johann Arndt
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're…
— David Bowie
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I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every…
— Karel Capek
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
— Alexis Carrel
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on…
— Frank Zappa
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After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
— Diane Ackerman
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
— Ovid
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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer…
— Angela Carter
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In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away…
— Saint Augustine
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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