Mason Cooley Quotes
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Art seduces, but does not exploit.
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Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
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Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
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As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
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We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
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Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
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Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
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Cure for an obsession: get another one.
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Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.
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Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
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Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.
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My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
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I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.
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Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
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Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
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Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
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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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If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
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Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.
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Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.