The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
ANDY ROONEYThe great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
ANDY ROONEYWould a real man get caught eating a twinkie?
ANDY ROONEYI’ve learned, That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.
ANDY ROONEYDon’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 ROONEYMy most serious character flaw is that I don’t deny myself much.
ANDY ROONEYOne of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.
ANDY ROONEYI’ve learned. That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you more.
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 ROONEYAll of us talk faster than we listen.
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 ROONEYThose of us who don’t have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading “Confused.
ANDY ROONEYAll economists should be locked up until they admit that they don’t know what they’re talking about.
ANDY ROONEYI 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.
ANDY ROONEYThe 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 ROONEYChristians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn’t have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.
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 ROONEY