Famous Quotes

Quotes by Mason Cooley

• A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
• A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
• After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
• 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.
• Art seduces, but does not exploit.
• As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
• At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
• Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
• Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
• Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
• Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
• Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
• Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
• Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
• Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
• Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
• Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
• Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
• Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
• Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
• Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
• Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
• Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
• Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
• I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
• I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.
• If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
• If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
• If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
• Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
• In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
• Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
• Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
• Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
• Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
• Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
• Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
• Money: power at its most liquid.
• Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.