Andy Rooney Quotes

• People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Appearance

• 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.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Frustrated, People, Dumb, Smart

• Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in News

• My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Along, Game, 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.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Six, Teacher

• Let’s make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We’ll pick a week next year and we’ll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.

  Andy Rooney

  Tags in Seven

• It’s paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Life

• If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Smile

  Tags in Smiling

• If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dogs, Animal

• I’m in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it’s wrong that I get fired, well, I’ve got enough to eat.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wrong

• I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn’t realize they thought. And they say, ‘Hey, yeah!’ And they like that.

  Andy Rooney

• I like ice hockey, but it’s a frustrating game to watch. It’s hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.

  Andy Rooney

  Tags in Hockey

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

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Arm

• I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don’t return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn’t want that to happen, would you.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Census, Happen, Month

• I don’t think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn’t surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Help, Surprise

• I don’t pick subjects as much as they pick me.

  Andy Rooney

  Tags in Subjects

• I didn’t get old on purpose, it just happened. If you’re lucky, it could happen to you.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lucky, Happen, Purpose

• Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It’s sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little s*xy too which doesn’t hurt.

  Andy Rooney

  Tags in Figure, Skating, Gymnastics

• Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Elephants, Forget

• Don’t rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Life

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.

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