P. J. O'Rourke Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word : Dentistry.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Past, Thinking, History

  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.2, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jobs, Work, Past

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.95, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Hippie, Gun, Past

• We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Past, Choices, Republican

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Nothing about economic growth in the United States over the course of the past 40, 50 years, during which time this has been continually happening, would indicate that we are being harmed in an overall sense by this.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Past, Years, Growth

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