# P.J. O'Rourke

- Quotes: 31
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pj-orourke

## Books

- [Holidays in Hell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pj-orourke/holidays-in-hell.md) — 30 quotes
- [On The Wealth of Nations](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pj-orourke/on-the-wealth-of-nations.md) — 1 quote

## Recently added quotes

> When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.

p. 22

Topics: [words](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/words.md)

> The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md)

> Earnestness is just stupidity sent to college.

Topics: [stupidity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stupidity.md)

> In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailing-boat equipment, the gin and tonic.

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md)

> The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.

Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md)

> There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md)

> I am no stranger to loud noise. I've been to a Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels concert. I once dated a woman with two kids.

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md)

> 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.

Topics: [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md)

> Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.

> Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md)

> I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners— two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md)

> Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md)