369 Quotes by Andy Rooney

The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.

A little-recognized value of listening and inquiring relates to the realization that in human relationships, it is frequently not what the I've learned ... that it is best to give advice in only two circumstances: when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.

Believing is such a comfort that it's hard to give up a belief just because it isn't true.

Person-to-person, most people are honest.

I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. 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.

Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.