Mason Cooley Quotes
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An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
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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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Cure for an obsession: get another one.
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The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.
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People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
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Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.
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Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.
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In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
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Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
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Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
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Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.
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Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.
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Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
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My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
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I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.
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In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
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Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
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Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
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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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Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?
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Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
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I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.
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Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
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Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.