460 Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke

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    No government proposal more complicated than “This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private” ever works.

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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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    Wearing a hat implies that you are bald if you are a man and that your hair is dirty if you are a woman.

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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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    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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    You can’t get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.

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    And, by the way, how come all the people who were so in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament are so opposed to unilateral protection against nukes?

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