911 Quotes by P. J. O'Rourke

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

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn’t look the way America does.

The American political system is like fast food--mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things...and everybody wants some.

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

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.

Political pundits are under professional obligation to regard the obvious as being too obvious.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by . . . politicians.

Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.