P. J. O'Rourke Quotes About Fun

Quotes about: Fun

• It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. In fact, cats possess so many of the same qualities as people that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dog, Fun, Mean

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.215, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, Clothes, People

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.465, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Never wear anything that panics the cat.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, Cat, Animal

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Christian, Atheist, Fun

• The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, College, Earth Day

  "Parliament of Whores". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1991.

• I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

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  Art, Fun, Interesting

• Anything that makes your mother cry is fun

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  Mother, Fun, Cry

  P. J. O'Rourke (2010). “Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending, Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed To Be With an Oi”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Normally, the job sucks but work is kinda fun, because you see your friends and flirt with girls and stuff.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Girl, Jobs, Fun

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow ... It is impossible to be alive and safe.

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  Horse, Fun, Race

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

• I'd known the people at Rolling Stone for a while. I'd gone to them with a piece I'd done on Beirut for Vanity Fair that Vanity Fair didn't want to publish, because they said I was making fun of death... This was Tina Brown.But they paid me for it. So I've got this big chunk of a piece, and Rolling Stone liked it, but they thought it was a little dated. But then they called me back and asked me to do a similar piece about the Turks and Caicos Islands, where the whole government had been arrested for dope smuggling. That was fun.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, Dope, Islands

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Life, Fun, Differences

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.106, Atlantic Books Ltd

• I didn't realize what fun it was [ been a reporter].

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, Realizing, Reporters

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, Church, Going To Church

  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.172, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It's impossible to be alive and safe.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, Alive, Safe

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke”, p.40, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• It is important to remember when making jokes about women, that they are not a minority. They weren't captured on another continent and brought here in leg-irons (funny shoes, yes, but not leg-irons) and Hitler didn't blame them for Germany's loss in WWI. Therefore, you can make any kind of fun of them you want.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, Loss, Shoes

• It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun

• Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20 humorists together.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, Opposites, Office

  Source: www.avclub.com

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