The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.
P. J. O'RourkeThe sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like something really expensive had been dropped and shattered in heaven - God's Steuben ashtray, maybe.
P. J. O'RourkeWhen politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.
P. J. O'RourkeHumans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate inability to pay attention to economic principles.
P. J. O'RourkePeople love to be told what they know already. It's not so much that what they say is wrong, though Ann Coulter does seem to be completely crazy.
P. J. O'RourkeThere's a lot of debate on this subject - about what kind of car handles best. Some say a a front-engined car, some say a rear-engined car. I say a rented car. Nothing handles better than a rented car. You can go faster, turn corners sharper, and put the transmission into reverse while going forward at a higher rate of speed in a rented car than in any other kind.
P. J. O'Rourke