Mason Cooley Quotes
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Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
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In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
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Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?
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Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
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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 every death, a busy world comes to an end.
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City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
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I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.
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Never try to leap from a standstill.
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Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
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Don’t milk the cow too hard. She will kick you.
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To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.
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Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
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We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.
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A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
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Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.
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Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.
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Rereading, we find a new book.
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Fears and lies intensify consciousness.
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The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.