Quote #10
A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.
More from Mason Cooley
- Self-pity makes people callous.
- Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.
- Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
- Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.
- Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.
- Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.
- In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
- The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.