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Mason Cooley Quotes About Love

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

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

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

Mason Cooley Quotes About Time

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

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

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

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

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

The time I kill is killing me.

More Quotes by Mason Cooley

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

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

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

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

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

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

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

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

Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.

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

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

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

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.

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

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

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

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