Conservatives are more religious than liberals–although there is no evidence that they’re nicer people because of it.
ANDY ROONEYConservatives are more religious than liberals–although there is no evidence that they’re nicer people because of it.
ANDY ROONEYCivilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.
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 ROONEYIf you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
ANDY ROONEYWhen those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
ANDY ROONEYI’ve learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
ANDY ROONEYAnyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he’s written that can’t be read aloud easily.
ANDY ROONEYThe average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
ANDY ROONEYGuns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.
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 ROONEYI’d like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off.
ANDY ROONEYMost of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion – as long as it agrees with ours.
ANDY ROONEYHappiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
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 ROONEYWe need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
ANDY ROONEYThe best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
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