Mason Cooley Quotes
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Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
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In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
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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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Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
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Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.
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Don’t milk the cow too hard. She will kick you.
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The beloved is the ultimate fetish.
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Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.
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Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.
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Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
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Never try to leap from a standstill.
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Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.
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Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.
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The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
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Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
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The only peace is being out of earshot.
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The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
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Fears and lies intensify consciousness.
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Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.