Drugs have taught an entire generation of Americans the metric system.

—P. J. O'Rourke

About P. J. O'Rourke

Portrait of P. J. O'Rourke

Patrick Jake O'Rourke (November 14, 1947 – February 15, 2022) was an American author, journalist, and political satirist who wrote twenty-two books on subjects as diverse as politics, cars, etiquette, and economics. His books Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance both reached No. 1 on The New York...

More quotations from P. J. O'Rourke

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

—P. J. O'Rourke

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

—P. J. O'Rourke

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

—P. J. O'Rourke

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.

—P. J. O'Rourke

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

—P. J. O'Rourke

History

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