460 Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.

Every generation finds the drug it needs.

Politicians are wonderful people as longa as they stay away from things they don’t understand, such as working for a living.

I’ve always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He’d have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with.

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

Every pleasure you forgoe on Earth is a pleasure you won’t get in heaven.

The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don’t actually go outdoors much, or the environment would be even worse than it is already.

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

The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don’t go there they shoot you.