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
im-sorry sorry mistrust
Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.
overcoming pleasure limitation
The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure.
time regret wasted-life
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time
dental-work ideas office
If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.
being-alone blame living-alone
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
kitchen literature chaos
No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.
nice literature hobbies
Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.
illness refuge trapped
We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.
bridges ideas technique
Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them.
misdeeds
Confess to the misdeeds you cannot hide.
faithful fickle obscurity
Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end.
halos holiness fame
Fame now wears the halo that once crowned holiness.
time ambition mediocrity
Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.
whim wit
Wit: a whim followed by a wham.