P. J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'Rourke
Patrick Jake "P. J." O'Rourkeis an American political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. Since 2011 O'Rourke has been a columnist at The Daily Beast. In the United Kingdom, he is known as the face of a long-running series of television...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth14 November 1947
CountryUnited States of America
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
Never fight an inanimate object.
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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.
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.
America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon you get ideas, and then you get idealism, and the next thing you know you've got ideology, with millions dead in concentration camps and gulags.
Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin.
This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying