American - Journalist | January 14, 1919 - November 4, 2011
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andy Rooney
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If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
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People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
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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.
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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.
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Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
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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.
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I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
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Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
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One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
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Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
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If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
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