Mason Cooley Quotes
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Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
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Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
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Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.
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I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.
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Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.
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Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
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Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
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To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.
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Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.
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The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.
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Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.
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In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
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Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
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Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
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Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
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Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
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Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
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Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
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Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
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Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
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After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
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The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.