P. J. ORourke Quotes about Life

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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

P. J. O'Rourke

Life, Government, Political

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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.

P. J. O'Rourke

Life, Believe, Thinking

P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.160, Atlantic Books Ltd

I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the best I can do. All the trouble in the world is human trouble. Well, that's not true. But when cancer cells run amok and burst out of the prostate and take over the liver and lymph glands and end up killing everything in the body including themselves, they certainly are acting like some humans we know.

P. J. O'Rourke

Life, Running, Nice

"All the Trouble in the World. The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague and Poverty". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1994.

Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

P. J. O'Rourke

Life, Brother, Book

P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.207, Atlantic Books Ltd

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

P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, Life, Sarcastic

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.124, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

P. J. O'Rourke

Life, Thinking, Ideas

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.