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 ROONEYI’ve learned, That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
More Andy Rooney Quotes
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The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
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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.
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The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
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I don’t know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you’ve taken a pill out?
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Vegetarian – that’s an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
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Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion – as long as it agrees with ours.
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I’ve learned… that just one person saying to me, ‘You’ve made my day!’ makes my day.
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When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
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I’ve learned That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.
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Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.
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I’ve learned, That life is tough, but I’m tougher.
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In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.
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Conservatives are more religious than liberals–although there is no evidence that they’re nicer people because of it.
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The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.
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Most of us aren’t that interested in getting rich- we just don’t want to get poor.
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The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.
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All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don’t know what they’re talking about.
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If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
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Don’t take a butcher’s advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he’d be a chef.
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Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.
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I’ve learned, That it’s those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.
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People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
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I don’t like food that’s too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I’d buy a painting.
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If you get murdered because you go on a date with someone you met on the Internet, you probably deserved it.
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I’ve learned that under everyone’s hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
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One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.
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