The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It’s a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
P. J. O'ROURKE
P. J. O'ROURKE
P. J. O'Rourke on ample
P. J. O'Rourke174 quotes“The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It’s a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.”
More from P. J. O'Rourke
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke 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.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Don’t send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke The most brilliant satire of all time was ‘A Modest Proposal’ by Jonathan Swift. You’ll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke The minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Once you’ve built the big machinery of political power, remember you won’t always be the one to run it.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow… he wasn’t evil or anything, but he was worthless.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke
Original quotes
From our community writers
Even with broken wings, she dares to fly. And even with a broken heart, she dares to love.
Divya khandalDivya khandal And I refuse to apologize until the very end for the way that I feel – my feelings are valid too.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Contemplate your own mortality daily, then see how much we must change.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor And what shall I call you? Yours. In this life, the ones before, and all others thereafter.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I was a living breathing nightmare and he was my favorite dream catcher.
Juwairiyyah OlgarJuwairiyyah Olgar
Meet the writers
More on ample
I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
Sabrina CarpenterSabrina Carpenter It has been a process ever since and I am now a big advocate in the message that we are not alone and we all have ample creativity within us if we just trust it.
Agapi StassinopoulosAgapi Stassinopoulos We are not alone and we all have ample creativity within us if we just trust it.
Agapi StassinopoulosAgapi Stassinopoulos