369 Quotes by Andy Rooney

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.

Great teachers are usually a little crazy.

I 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.

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.

The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.

I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.

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.

Most college students are not as smart as most college presidents.

I've learned... That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.