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P. J. O'Rourke

Read through the most famous quotes from P. J. O'Rourke




Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.


— P. J. O'Rourke


#bad #clinging #family #like #love

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.


— P. J. O'Rourke


#comes #consequences #damn #duty #human

Never wear anything that panics the cat.


— P. J. O'Rourke


#anything #cat #never #panics #wear

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.


— P. J. O'Rourke


#christians #cows #dairy #fun #high

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.


— P. J. O'Rourke


#earnestness #sent #stupidity

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.


— P. J. O'Rourke


#benefits #divorce #elicit #ever #friends

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.


— P. J. O'Rourke


#adult #deal #drink #fat #great

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.


— P. J. O'Rourke


#car #car keys #giving #keys #like

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.


— P. J. O'Rourke


#carefully #child #children #concept #death

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.


— P. J. O'Rourke


#because #difficult #discipline #may #parents






About P. J. O'Rourke






Did you know about P. J. O'Rourke?

In 1996 he served as the conservative commentator in the point-counterpoint segment of 60 Minutes. He recounts that during his student days he was a left-leaning hippie but that in the 1970s his political views underwent a volte-face. Y.

In the United Kingdom he is known as the face of a long-running series of television advertisements for British Airways in the 1990s. This was preceded on September 21 2010 by Don't Vote!-It Just Encourages the Bastards and on September 1 2009 Driving Like Crazy with a reprint edition publiP. J. O'Rourked on May 11 2010.

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