28 Mason Cooley Quotes

Mason Cooley delivers sly, witty reflections that tease the oddities of love, politics and the uncanny.

When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.
#1
Trust, but look for the exits.
#2
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
#3
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
#4
Travelers never think that THEY are the foreigners.
#5
In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
#6
Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.
#7
Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
#8
Self-pity makes people callous.
#9
A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.
#10
Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.
#11
Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.
#12
Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.
#13
The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.
#14
Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.
#15
Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
#16
Many try to force the past to change.
#17
Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.
#18
Listening to people keeps them entertained.
#19
If you are going to be rude, be quick about it.
#20
Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.
#21
An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.
#22
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
#23
Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.
#24
A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.
#25
I regret. I apologize. I blame myself. I continue as before.
#26
'Why not?' is a slogan for an interesting life.
#27
Beautiful poeple are forgiven more often than the rest.
#28

Mason Cooley quotes