Mason Cooley Quotes
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General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
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Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
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In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
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Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
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Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.
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Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
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Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
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City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
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I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.
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An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
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Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
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Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
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Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.
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I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.
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Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
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Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
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Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
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In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
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Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
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Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.
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Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
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Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
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Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
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As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.