Mason Cooley Quotes

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

Keep, Easy, Fact

Malice is always authentic and sincere.
Mason Cooley

Sincere, Malice, Authentic

Many gloat over their own troubles.
Mason Cooley

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

Age, Lost, Youth

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
Mason Cooley

Mind, Another, Body

Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.
Mason Cooley

Last, Minds, Judgment

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

May, Idea, Knows

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.
Mason Cooley

Mind, Astray, Faint

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
Mason Cooley

Fire, Carpet, Passions

Never ask a bore a question.
Mason Cooley

Question, Ask, Bore

Never try to leap from a standstill.
Mason Cooley

Try, Leap, Standstill

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
Mason Cooley

Path, Open, Morality

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

Find, Cannot, Often

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
Mason Cooley

Age, Friends, Old

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
Mason Cooley

Young, Old, Another

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

Name, Answer, Knocks

Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
Mason Cooley

May, Mine, Beliefs

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
Mason Cooley

Books, Avoid, Outside

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
Mason Cooley

Art, True, Cannot

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
Mason Cooley

May, Solitude, Almost

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
Mason Cooley

Philosophy, Sense, Run

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

Past, Book, Same

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

Thoughts, Cannot, Around

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
Mason Cooley

State, Reputation, Behind

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
Mason Cooley

Sense, Common, Consider

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: 1927

Died: 2002

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