Most of us aren’t that interested in getting rich- we just don’t want to get poor.
ANDY ROONEYDeath is a distant rumor to the young.
More Andy Rooney Quotes
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Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.
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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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I’ve learned that we should be glad God doesn’t give us everything we ask for.
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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 under everyone’s hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
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I can’t choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.
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I’ve learned, That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.
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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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It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.
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I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.
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I’d be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn’t believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don’t think it does.
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The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
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One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.
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Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
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Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
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