Famous Quotes by Mike Royko

“Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.”

The easiest way to know that something isn’t true is to read it in a newspaper.

Some people get bent out of shape over the slightest hint of discrimination or prejudice. Not me. I think prejudice is perfectly natural.

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn’t the faintest idea about what the heck is really going on.

The trouble with being a sports fan is, it’s never over.

When you love a city, its ugliness becomes beautiful.

A newspaper is the center of a community, it’s one of the tent poles of the community, and that’s not going to be replaced by websites and blogs.

The people who need honesty from their politicians are the people who don’t understand politics.

Apathy is the solution. I mean, it's easier to lose yourself in drugs than it is to cope with life.

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

Hating the Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

I don't believe in polls, but if I did, I'd give them a passing grade of about 40 percent.

It’s not just a game. It's a national pastime that’s been tainted by greed and ego.

Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.

Nothing more quickly explains the popularity of sports than their unreality.

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries for dinner.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

The things that make big headlines are things that happen to little people.

Some things you have to take for granted, even when you don’t know what they are.