P. J. O'Rourke is an American political satirist and journalist. He is the author of numerous best-selling books, including Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance. He is also a frequent guest on television and radio talk shows, and a contributing editor for The Atlantic and The Weekly Standard.

What is the most famous quote by P. J. O'Rourke ?

Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.

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What can you learn from P. J. O'Rourke (Life Lessons)

  1. P.J. ORourke's comedic style and sharp wit can teach us to never take life too seriously and to always find the humor in any situation.
  2. His willingness to challenge conventional wisdom and speak his mind can show us that it's important to think for ourselves and form our own opinions.
  3. His self-deprecating humor can remind us that it's important to laugh at ourselves and not take ourselves too seriously.

The most professional P. J. O'Rourke quotes that will add value to your life

Following is a list of the best P. J. O'Rourke quotes, including various P. J. O'Rourke inspirational quotes, and other famous sayings by P. J. O'Rourke.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

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There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

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Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

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

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Who is P. J. O'Rourke?

P. J. O'Rourke is a American Comedian
Nationality American
Profession Comedian
Born November 14, 1947
Quotes 962 sayings

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

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A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.

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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.

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There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

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Satirical quotes by P. J. O'Rourke

A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money.

Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.

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Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television.

Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's given to fistfights, gunplay, and other mayhem. Kids who believe this about grownups aren't likely to argue about bedtime.

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When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.

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It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

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Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.

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Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

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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.

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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.

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Quotations by P. J. O'Rourke that are witty and irreverent

Walt is dead. And, after a couple of hours at Epcot, you'll wish you were, too.

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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society.

If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

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In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word : Dentistry.

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It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.

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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.

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Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues."

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Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

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Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you've half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose and a teenage lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat over while you're doing a hundred miles an hour in a suburban side street.

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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

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Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.

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The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit

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The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

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Never fight an inanimate object.

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You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

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I have, of all the inglorious things, a malignant hemorrhoid. What color bracelet does one wear for that? And where does one wear it? And what slogan is apropos? Perhaps that slogan can be sewn in needlepoint around the ruffle on a cover for my embarrassing little doughnut buttocks pillow.

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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.

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Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet.

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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.

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Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

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

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Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.

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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know.

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You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

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El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.

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Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

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

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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.

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After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

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One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they guillotined all the smart people in 1793.

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