“Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.”
– Mason Cooley
“Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.”
– Mason Cooley
“At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.”
– Mason Cooley
“The wisdom of age: don’t stop walking.”
– Mason Cooley
“If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.”
– Mason Cooley
“I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.”
– Mason Cooley
“Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.”
– Mason Cooley
“Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.”
– Mason Cooley
“Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.”
– Mason Cooley
“I’m being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.”
– Mason Cooley
“Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.”
– Mason Cooley
“The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.”
– Mason Cooley
“Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.”
– Mason Cooley
“Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.”
– Mason Cooley
“The time I kill is killing me.”
– Mason Cooley
“When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.”
– Mason Cooley
“If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.”
– Mason Cooley
“After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.”
– Mason Cooley
“Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.”
– Mason Cooley
“Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.”
– Mason Cooley
“Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.”
– Mason Cooley
“Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?”
– Mason Cooley
“The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.”
– Mason Cooley
“Money: power at its most liquid.”
– Mason Cooley
“Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.”
– Mason Cooley
“A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.”
– Mason Cooley
“Even cats grow lonely and anxious.”
– Mason Cooley
“Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.”
– Mason Cooley
“The only peace is being out of earshot.”
– Mason Cooley
“Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.”
– Mason Cooley