"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."
"I didn't get old on purpose. It just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you."
"It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything."
"Most of us end up with five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives."
"Death is a distant rumor to the young."
"If you wonder what anyone thinks of you, consider what you think of them."
"Being broke is a terrible feeling but it’s probably an experience everyone ought to have once in a lifetime."
"One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the world. Patriotism is rampant in war and there are some good things about it. Just as self-respect and pride bring out the best in an individual, pride in family, pride in teammates, pride in hometown bring out the best in groups of people. War brings out the kind of pride in country that encourages its citizens in the direction of excellence and it encourages them to be ready to die for it. At no time do people work so well together to achieve the same goal as they do in wartime. Maybe that's enough to make patriotism eligible to be considered a virtue. If only I could get out of my mind the most patriotic people who ever lived, the Nazi Germans."
"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."
"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it."
Andy Rooney reminds me of the times when news reports provided facts and nothing else. A time when common sense was valued and respected by most, if not all.
That desk, those books and all that paper...
This is how I will forever remember him:
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Andy Rooney
1919-2011
Your wisdom and wit will be missed.
