Mason Cooley Quotes and its meanings

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

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

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

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

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

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

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

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

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

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

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

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

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

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

While there's life, there's fear.

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

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

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

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

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

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

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

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

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

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

Money: power at its most liquid.

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

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

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

The only peace is being out of earshot.

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

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

Money: power at its most liquid.

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

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

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

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

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

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

The time I kill is killing me.

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

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

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

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.