Mason Cooley Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Mason Cooley Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
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
