Best 40 quotes of Willard Scott on MyQuotes

A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.

As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.

August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.

Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.

Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.

Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'

If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that catfish is one of the finest eating fishes in the world.

I get all fired up about aging in America.

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

I go to McDonald's at least once a week. I always get a No. 2.

I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.

I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children's show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there.

I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.

I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.

In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?

I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.

Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.

No libraries, no progress.

People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.

The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.

There are plenty of good-looking women out there. Go get them.

There is something endearing about the weatherman.

The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!

Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.

When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true.

When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.

Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not.

Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.