The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.
ANDY ROONEYEveryone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.
More Andy Rooney Quotes
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Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
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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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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 no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
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Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
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I’m always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.
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Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.
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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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Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.
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Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes – that’s what I’m here for.
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Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?
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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.
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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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I didn’t get old on purpose, it just happened. If you’re lucky, it could happen to you.
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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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