460 Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke

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

The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.

If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.

I’m a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn’t stick your nose in other people’s business except to make a buck.

People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.

I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

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

Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.