Mason Cooley
Mason Cooley
Mason Cooleywas an American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. One of these such aphorisms Cooley developed was "The time I kill is killing me."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
Mason Cooley quotes about
disappointment expectations prove
Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.
disappointment
We express disappointment in everything except ourselves.
disappointment remember feels
I feel disappointed, but I don't remember just what I expected.
culture form expensive
Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.
loss progress may
Progress may feel more like loss than gain.
secret humiliating petty
My secrets are petty but humiliating.
self earning social
I create my social existence by earning and spending.
self people satisfaction
Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?
self dwarves what-if
Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?
order self people
People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.
self analysis cheat
Self-analysis always cheats.
betrayal self self-betrayal
I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.
hope home self
When I go out, I hope to leave the worst of myself at home.
change score sophistication
Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.