Mason Cooley
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
-Mason Cooley
age
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
-Mason Cooley
age
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
-Mason Cooley
age
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
-Mason Cooley
age
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
-Mason Cooley
alone
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
-Mason Cooley
alone
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
-Mason Cooley
amazing
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
-Mason Cooley
art
Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
-Mason Cooley
art
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
-Mason Cooley
art
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
-Mason Cooley
art
Art seduces, but does not exploit.
-Mason Cooley
art
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
-Mason Cooley
beauty
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
-Mason Cooley
change
A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
-Mason Cooley
change
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
-Mason Cooley
change
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
-Mason Cooley
courage
In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
-Mason Cooley
death
Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
-Mason Cooley
death
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
-Mason Cooley
equality
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
-Mason Cooley
failure
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
-Mason Cooley
faith
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
-Mason Cooley
faith
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
-Mason Cooley
faith
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
-Mason Cooley
faith
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
-Mason Cooley
fear
While there's life, there's fear.
-Mason Cooley
fear
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
-Mason Cooley
finance
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
-Mason Cooley
food
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
-Mason Cooley
forgiveness
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
-Mason Cooley
friendship
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
-Mason Cooley
future
Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
-Mason Cooley
happiness
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
-Mason Cooley
health
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
-Mason Cooley
history
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
-Mason Cooley
history
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