When love and adventure are finished, it's nice to have getting and spending to fall back on.
By Mason Cooley
When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.
By Mason Cooley
When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence.
By Mason Cooley
We make some changes. But mostly changes make us.
By Mason Cooley
We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.
By Mason Cooley
Unlike art and sex, money always arouses interest.
By Mason Cooley
Vicarious living is only slightly less impossible than vicarious eating.
By Mason Cooley
Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.
By Mason Cooley
The smile of a politician is strong and friendly, but noncommittal.
By Mason Cooley
The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.
By Mason Cooley
The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.
By Mason Cooley
The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.
By Mason Cooley
The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.
By Mason Cooley
The party out of office becomes the articulate one.
By Mason Cooley
The lion cares less about being king of the beasts than about finding his dinner.
By Mason Cooley
The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.
By Mason Cooley
The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.
By Mason Cooley
The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.
By Mason Cooley
The educated can listen impassively to almost anything.
By Mason Cooley
Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.
By Mason Cooley
Somehow the body keeps life going despite the ravaging negations of the mind.
By Mason Cooley
Politicians love change, but of details only.
By Mason Cooley
Politics inflame the passions in a way that few beloveds can match.
By Mason Cooley
Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.
By Mason Cooley
Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.
By Mason Cooley
