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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'Rourke

#came #children #going #growing #growing up

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#does #else #foreign #foreign policy #government

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#children #considered #contest #divorce #ensue

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#flattery #gossip #objects #present #say

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#giving #money #people #poverty #rid

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#eat #exception #humans #like #only

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. O'Rourke

#duties #equipped #even #police #policemen

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#fact #going #i #more #old

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#bedrock #built #consent #derive #governed

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#nothing #only #quiet #relative #tasteful