Quotes By Mason Cooley

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.

Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.

Money: power at its most liquid.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.

Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.

The only peace is being out of earshot.

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

Young men preen. Old men scheme.

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

Never try to leap from a standstill.

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.