65 Quotations by P. J. O'Rourke
- 41. Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have ...

- 42. Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

- 43. Politics are a lousy way for a free man to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, ...

- 44. Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to ...

- 45. Remember the generational battles twenty years ago? Remember all the screaming at the dinner table a ...

- 46. Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

- 47. Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow i ...

- 48. Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and tho ...

- 49. Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a b ...

- 50. Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only come once a year.

- 51. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove t ...

- 52. The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

- 53. The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad thin ...

- 54. The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display e ...

- 55. The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner's manual for a 1998 Toyota Camr ...

- 56. The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When ...

- 57. There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief ...

- 58. There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grow ...

- 59. There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like- ...

- 60. There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded K ...

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