Famous Quotes

Quotes by Mason Cooley

• Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
• Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
• People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
• Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
• Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
• Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
• Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
• Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
• The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
• The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
• The only peace is being out of earshot.
• The passion for money is never fickle.
• The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
• The time I kill is killing me.
• The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
• To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
• Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
• Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
• When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
• While there's life, there's fear.
• Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
• Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
• Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.