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
overcoming pleasure limitation
The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure.
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.
illness refuge trapped
We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.
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.
whim wit
Wit: a whim followed by a wham.
sometimes enough yeah
Sometimes "Yes" is rhetoric enough.
romantic sex speak
It is hard to speak of sex without being clinical, brutal, or romantic.
mars venus detectives
Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.
vices boring cruelty
Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.
tails aphorism kink
Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.
stoicism behavior ifs
What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?
up-in-the-air noses gone
If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.