Quotes By Mason Cooley

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

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

A blocked path also offers guidance.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

The real secrets are not the ones I tell.

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.