We’re all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.
ANDY ROONEYWe’re all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.
ANDY ROONEYAnyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he’s written that can’t be read aloud easily.
ANDY ROONEYI’ve learned, That I can always pray for someone when I don’t have the strength to help him in some other way.
ANDY ROONEYWhen it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.
ANDY ROONEYI’ve learned that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
ANDY ROONEYWhen those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
ANDY ROONEYLooking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time.
ANDY ROONEYI’ve learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
ANDY ROONEYMost 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 ROONEYThe biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.
ANDY ROONEYI’ve learned, That when you’re in love, it shows.
ANDY ROONEYAll economists should be locked up until they admit that they don’t know what they’re talking about.
ANDY ROONEYI 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?
ANDY ROONEYI 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.
ANDY ROONEYIf, 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.
ANDY ROONEYSooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.
ANDY ROONEY