P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

• Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

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  Tags in Government

• Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

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  Topics in Children

• Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

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  Topics in Family, Love

• Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

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  Topics in Children, Death

• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

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  Topics in Love, Power, Society

• Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.

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  Tags in Never, Wife

• There are a number of mechanical devices which increase s*xual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

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  Tags in Women, Increase

• The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.

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  Tags in Behavior

• Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

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

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• There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

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• There’s something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

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  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Growth

• After all, what is your host’s purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they’d have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

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  Tags in Enjoy, Yourself

• Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

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  Tags in Read, Reading

• A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Hat

• There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

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  Tags in Human Rights

• Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

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  Tags in Government, Foreign Policy

• You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.

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  Topics in Money

• There’s one more terrifying fact about old people: I’m going to be one soon.

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  Tags in People, Fact

• You may be surprised to discover you’re rich, especially if you’re broke.

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P. J. O'Rourke (107)

Birth:	14th November, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Politician, Satirist, Writer

About

P. J. O'Rourke is an American political satirist, journalist, writer, and author. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. In the United Kingdom, he is known as the face of a long-running series of television advertisements for British Airways in the 1990s.

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