P. J. O'Rourke Quotes About Wife

Quotes about: Wife

• Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce you for refusing to spend forty hours a week making up lies about toilet paper.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jobs, Lying, Humorous

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.42, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the next thing you know he's got a big office, a huge salary and is living in a fine home with a lovely wife and swell kids - another career blown to hell.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Jobs, Home

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.41, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Golf, Wife, Bills

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.506, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wife, Dating, Advice

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.23, Atlantic Books Ltd

• My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Two, Wife, Hitting

• The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon. Being a Republican, I'm backing Hillary Clinton. Because she could lose. The reason is not that she's a woman. The reason is that she's the particular woman who taught the 4th grade class that every man in America wished he were dead in. Hillary Clinton is Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown. Hillary Clinton is "America's ex-wife."

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Football, Moon, Men

  "Letter to Our European Friends" by P. J. O'Rourke, www.weeklystandard.com. February 4, 2008.

• Satan probably wouldn't have talked so big if God had been his wife.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Marriage, Wife, Satan

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.89, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• There's a current notion that you should "take charge of your disease." No thanks. I'm busy. I've got cancer. I'm willing to face having cancer. I'm not willing to face having cancer with homework. I promised Dr. Pipas and Dr. Zaki that I wouldn't show up with sheaves of printouts from the Internet containing everything on Wikipedia on malignancies. They each laughed with detectable notes of relief. Although I suspect my wife has made her way into the health blog ether. Fish oil pills, raw kelp, and other untoward substances started showing up on dinner plates after I was diagnosed.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cancer, Oil, Wife

• I have three children and three dogs. You put them in a Prius, you know? People who have a Prius obviously have no life! No wife, no kids, no pets - there's no room in there for anything!

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dog, Children, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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