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
