P. J. O'Rourke on bell
P. J. O'Rourke174 quotes“What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it’s so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I’ve received a spam text.”
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We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren’t there.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn’t exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke The budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke 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.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke 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.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
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I’ve had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring
Benito MussoliniBenito Mussolini The dog [in Pavlov’s experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.
Gordon AllportGordon Allport My favorite movie is ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.’
Jason MomoaJason Momoa I’m getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
Alan GreenspanAlan Greenspan Between the double and the single bell Of a ship’s hour, between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below
Adam SkirvingAdam Skirving Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John DonneJohn Donne I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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