Quotes By Mason Cooley

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

Never ask a bore a question.

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

While there's life, there's fear.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

Rereading, we find a new book.

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

The man in the street is always a stranger.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.