Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
P. J. O'ROURKENever be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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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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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Rich people don’t like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don’t go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
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Once you’ve built the big machinery of political power, remember you won’t always be the one to run it.
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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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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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A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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When you’re a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, ‘Gee, I wouldn’t want to be doing that.’ They’re on your side.
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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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