People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
P. J. O'ROURKENo industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I’ve been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it’s got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It’s not pretty. But it’s striking, I’ll give it that. It’s not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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I don’t even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I’ve never used a computer.
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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don’t like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it’s a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also – to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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