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P J ORourke Quotes
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A good bachelor drinks his dessert (and sometimes the rest of his meals). A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you’re getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails (P J ORourke Quotes)
Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks (P J ORourke Quotes)
The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The next best vegetable is the jalapeno pepper. It has the virtue of turning salads into practical jokes (P J ORourke Quotes)
The real truth about children is they don’t speak the language very well. They’re physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong (P J ORourke Quotes)
One nice thing about the Third World, you don’t have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes (P J ORourke Quotes)
The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words (P J ORourke Quotes)
You can’t get good chinese takeout in China and cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That’s all you need to know about communism (P J ORourke Quotes)
There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself (P J ORourke Quotes)
Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have (P J ORourke Quotes)
A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you’re going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death (P J ORourke Quotes)
Idealism is based on big ideas. and, as anybody who has ever been asked What’s the big idea? Knows, most big ideas are bad ones (P J ORourke Quotes)
Imagine a weight-loss program at the end of which, instead of better health, good looks, and hot romantic prospects, you die. Somalia had become just this kind of spa (P J ORourke Quotes)
In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn’t matter (P J ORourke Quotes)
It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali problem. We have poverty and deprivation in our own country. Try standing unarmed on a street corner in Compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last (P J ORourke Quotes)
Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various appendages, and my attitude toward standing on anything higher than, say, political principles, and I have concluded that, personally, I evolved in the backseat of a car (P J ORourke Quotes)
Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming (P J ORourke Quotes)
The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around (P J ORourke Quotes)
With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn’t think possible in today’s world. They have created a land of make-believe that’s worse than regular life (P J ORourke Quotes)
The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting (P J ORourke Quotes)
There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them (P J ORourke Quotes)
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us (P J ORourke Quotes)
Journalists aren’t supposed to praise things. It’s a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something (P J ORourke Quotes)
Rich parents are famous both for miserliness and astonishing longevity. And, when they finally do die, you’ll find they’ve left their estate in inviolate trust to the golden retrievers (P J ORourke Quotes)
Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations (P J ORourke Quotes)
There’s no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn’t invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it’s possible (P J ORourke Quotes)
Soldiers are not policemen, and it’s very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It’s not what they’re trained for, or equipped for (P J ORourke Quotes)
Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How’d they get so rich? Because they’re free (P J ORourke Quotes)
What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention (P J ORourke Quotes)
I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it (P J ORourke Quotes)
Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading (P J ORourke Quotes)