#ore

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

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

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

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. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#hat #lady #left #life #looks

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#conservatism #difficult #easy #easy way #express

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#call #care #dealing #education #extremely

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#less #more #nothing #pay #somebody

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#endless #foreigners #get #god #infinite

The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#body #forever #get #had #known

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#in print #more #much #outsider #point