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I’ve learned. That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you more.
Andy RooneyAndy Rooney Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.
Andy RooneyAndy Rooney I’ve learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
Andy RooneyAndy Rooney Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Andy RooneyAndy Rooney I’ve learned, That when you’re in love, it shows.
Andy RooneyAndy Rooney In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.
Andy RooneyAndy Rooney I’ve learned… that just one person saying to me, ‘You’ve made my day!’ makes my day.
Andy RooneyAndy Rooney Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.
Andy RooneyAndy Rooney Small daily happenings make life spectacular. Start enjoying the small things in life!
Andy RooneyAndy Rooney It’s paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.
Andy RooneyAndy Rooney You can’t be a good writer without being a good thinker.
Andy RooneyAndy Rooney Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Andy RooneyAndy Rooney A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don’t know what they are talking about.
Andy RooneyAndy Rooney Don’t keep saying, “I don’t know where the time goes.” It goes the same place it’s always gone and no one has ever known where that is.
Andy RooneyAndy Rooney Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes – that’s what I’m here for.
Andy RooneyAndy Rooney It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.
Andy RooneyAndy Rooney
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Gabrielle BernsteinGabrielle Bernstein Learn to obey before you command.
SolonSolon It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.
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