Andy Rooney Quotes

• The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Wisdom

• I’ve learned …. That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Wisdom

• 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.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Believe, Nicer

• I’ve learned …. That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

  Andy Rooney

  Tags in Dog, Person

• Writers don’t retire. I will always be a writer.

  Andy Rooney

• Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real Man, Eating

• When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.

  Andy Rooney

  Tags in Pepper

• We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in True

• Vegetarian – that’s an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Native Americans, Meaning

• 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.

  Andy Rooney

  Tags in Sounds, Musicians

• The Super Bowl isn’t for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nickel, Worth

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

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Politicians, People

• The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can’t eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as ‘progress’, doesn’t spread.

  Andy Rooney

  Tags in Research, Federal

• The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever ‘curling’ means.

  Andy Rooney

  Tags in Olympic

• 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.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Life, Sad

  Tags in Privacy, Comfort

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

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Hates, Army, Bright, Man

• 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 Rooney

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Probability

• Taxes are important. President Bush’s tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

  Andy Rooney

  Tags in Taxes

Andy Rooney (51)

Birth:	14th January, 1919
Death:	4th November, 2011
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Commentator, Journalist, Writer

About

Andy Rooney  was an American radio and television writer. He was best known for his weekly broadcast "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney," a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011. His final regular appearance on 60 Minutes aired October 2, 2011. Rooney began his career in newspapers while in the Army when, in 1942, he began writing for Stars and Stripes in London during World War II. Later, he was one of the first American journalists to visit the Nazi concentration camps near the end of World War II, and one of the first to write about them. For his service as a war correspondent in combat zones during the war Rooney was decorated with the Bronze Star Medal and Air Medal.

Related Authors

• Cleveland Amory
• Tom McCall
• Michael Alan Weiner
• Fareed Rafiq Zakaria
• Brent Musburger
• Jonathan Krohn
• Paul Weyrich
• George Will
• Neal Boortz
• Bob Knight

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 25th November

Births

• 1915 - Augusto Pinochet
• 1978 - Joseph Lancaster
• 1905 - Patrick Arthur Devlin
• 1939 - Martin Feldstein
• 1880 - Leonard Woolf

Deaths

• 2002 - Karel Reisz
• 1974 - U Thant
• 1970 - Yukio Mishima
• 1973 - Laurence Harvey
• 1998 - Nelson Goodman