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Quotes from famed columnist Mike Royko
Jan 22, 2024 17:52:47   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
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.

A pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub fan wonders when it's gonna spill.

For some people, being free means being free to keep their feet on someone else's chest.

Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws...It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.

If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning Anita Bryant to go on television and push orange juice?

Why do you think the lottery is so popular? Do you think anybody would play if the super payoff was a job on the night shift in a meat-packing plant? People play it so if they win they can be rich and idle. Like I told you years ago - if work is so good, how come they have to pay us to do it?

Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even d********g. As evidence of that, just watch this space regularly.

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west.

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

Anyone who gives a surgeon six thousand dollars for breast augmentation should give some thought to investing a little more in brain augmentation.

It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him.

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and c***ting on your income tax.

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

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

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Jan 22, 2024 18:48:13   #
Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon
 
And if some women did not want you to look at their behind they would not have a tattoo on their lower back .

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