Mason Cooley Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Mason Cooley Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought. — Mason Cooley
What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me. — Mason Cooley
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it. — Mason Cooley
The children of childish parents age quickly. — Mason Cooley
An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult. — Mason Cooley
Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters. — Mason Cooley
Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart. — Mason Cooley
I can neither return your love nor dismiss it. — Mason Cooley
Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals? — Mason Cooley
Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime. — Mason Cooley
My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid. — Mason Cooley
More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles. — Mason Cooley
Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery. — Mason Cooley
Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby. — Mason Cooley
Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life. — Mason Cooley
To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room. — Mason Cooley
Family romances are the only ones that never turn out happily. — Mason Cooley
Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings. — Mason Cooley
The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling. — Mason Cooley
Metaphors convince at once or not at all. — Mason Cooley
Every work of art changes its predecessors. — Mason Cooley
I change my opinions often, but not my way of thinking. — Mason Cooley
Which is the supplement? Fantasy or daily routine? — Mason Cooley
A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it. — Mason Cooley
A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach. — Mason Cooley
Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all. — Mason Cooley
Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious. — Mason Cooley
Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never. — Mason Cooley
When a modest man praises himself, people listen. — Mason Cooley
I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly. — Mason Cooley
If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation. — Mason Cooley
It is not confused. We are. — Mason Cooley
Reading civilized the inner life. — Mason Cooley
The morose one refuses to smile even when he has just had his teeth cleaned. — Mason Cooley
Stutters and snorts are meaningful but not usually referential. — Mason Cooley
The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy. — Mason Cooley
Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money. — Mason Cooley
The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed. — Mason Cooley
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life. — Mason Cooley
It's no good being exclusive if nobody wants in. — Mason Cooley
The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth. — Mason Cooley
Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time. — Mason Cooley
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. — Mason Cooley
If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning. — Mason Cooley
A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable. — Mason Cooley
As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty. — Mason Cooley
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success. — Mason Cooley
Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing. — Mason Cooley
The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting. — Mason Cooley
A quick smile is more seductive than a slinky dress. — Mason Cooley
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. — Mason Cooley
Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here? — Mason Cooley
Living too long exacts a painful price. — Mason Cooley
Curiosity makes loneliness. — Mason Cooley
Sometimes the given seems like something taken away. — Mason Cooley
Documents create a paper reality we call proof. — Mason Cooley
A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time. — Mason Cooley
Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead. — Mason Cooley
Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them. — Mason Cooley
Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it. — Mason Cooley
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. — Mason Cooley
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley
Never trust the judgment of an enthusiastic man; never trust the promises of a lazy one. — Mason Cooley
Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret. — Mason Cooley
The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious. — Mason Cooley
Don't tell me it's raining when you're peeing on me! — Mason Cooley
A sheep who goes looking for a wolf is sure to find one. — Mason Cooley
Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable. — Mason Cooley
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. — Mason Cooley
Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth. — Mason Cooley
Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues. — Mason Cooley
Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting. — Mason Cooley
I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is. — Mason Cooley
Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue. — Mason Cooley
The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation. — Mason Cooley
Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap. — Mason Cooley
A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous. — Mason Cooley
I keep eating for fear I will be hungry. — Mason Cooley
Shaw writes as if it were always midday. — Mason Cooley
My mind is led astray by every faint rustle. — Mason Cooley
Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling. — Mason Cooley
The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life. — Mason Cooley
Moderation in all things is best, but it's pretty hard to get excited about it. — Mason Cooley
Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are. — Mason Cooley
In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment. — Mason Cooley
Bad faith makes the most of every ambiguity. — Mason Cooley
Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved — Mason Cooley
The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking. — Mason Cooley
Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments. — Mason Cooley
Something is sticking out its tongue at me from the corner of my mirror. — Mason Cooley
The more learned a writer, the more digression beckons him. — Mason Cooley
A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper. — Mason Cooley
To appear well dressed, be skinny and tall. — Mason Cooley
As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner. — Mason Cooley
My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had. — Mason Cooley
Home again, I can groan, scratch, and talk to myself. — Mason Cooley
The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path. — Mason Cooley
The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport. — Mason Cooley
If you should ever acknowledge my existence, I plan to snub you. — Mason Cooley
The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things. — Mason Cooley