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Quotes by Mason Cooley

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
– Mason Cooley
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
– Mason Cooley
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
– Mason Cooley
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
– Mason Cooley
Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
– Mason Cooley
Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
– Mason Cooley
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
– Mason Cooley
While there's life, there's fear.
– Mason Cooley
When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
– Mason Cooley
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
– Mason Cooley
To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
– Mason Cooley
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
– Mason Cooley
The time I kill is killing me.
– Mason Cooley
The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
– Mason Cooley
The passion for money is never fickle.
– Mason Cooley
The only peace is being out of earshot.
– Mason Cooley
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
– Mason Cooley
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
– Mason Cooley
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
– Mason Cooley
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
– Mason Cooley
Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
– Mason Cooley
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
– Mason Cooley
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
– Mason Cooley
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
– Mason Cooley
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
– Mason Cooley
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
– Mason Cooley
Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
– Mason Cooley
Money: power at its most liquid.
– Mason Cooley
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
– Mason Cooley
Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
– Mason Cooley
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
– Mason Cooley
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
– Mason Cooley
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
– Mason Cooley
In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
– Mason Cooley
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
– Mason Cooley
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
– Mason Cooley
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
– Mason Cooley
If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
– Mason Cooley
I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.
– Mason Cooley
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
– Mason Cooley
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
– Mason Cooley
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
– Mason Cooley
Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
– Mason Cooley
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
– Mason Cooley
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
– Mason Cooley
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
– Mason Cooley
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
– Mason Cooley
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
– Mason Cooley
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
– Mason Cooley
Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
– Mason Cooley
Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
– Mason Cooley
Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
– Mason Cooley
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
– Mason Cooley
Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
– Mason Cooley
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
– Mason Cooley
Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
– Mason Cooley
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
– Mason Cooley
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
– Mason Cooley
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
– Mason Cooley
Art seduces, but does not exploit.
– Mason Cooley
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
– Mason Cooley
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
– Mason Cooley
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
– Mason Cooley
A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
– Mason Cooley
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
– Mason Cooley