Andy Rooney

Found 13 thoughts of Andy Rooney

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.

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.

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.