Mike Royko Quotes

Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung?

I like a nice, crisp pilsner or lager.

Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.

I'm 12 years sober, so I don't have beer! When I used to drink I really liked Bass Ale!

I've married a friggin horse. And he bites.

Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner

There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.

The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

I didn't say I would start a yard." "You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and you'll have a nest of horses outside your window and Puck Connolly in your bed and I'll buy from you instead of Malvern. That's your future for you.

I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.

Beer is a wholesome liquor.....it abounds with nourishment

Life isn't all beer and skittles; few of us have touched a skittle in years.

Raise up your glasses against evil forces; Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.

I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass.

Think beer; drink beer.

I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, "You ride the horse the direction it's going."

I drink no cider, but feast on Philadelphia beer.

I got on a horse when I was about 12 years of age, and started galloping around. my mother came up said "where did you learn to ride a horse?" I said "this is the first time I've ever been on a horse" I just knew, I just felt the horse.

120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

I love horses. I spent seven years as a racing commissioner on a horse-racing board.

Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?