Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.
By Mason Cooley
Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.
By Mason Cooley
Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
By Mason Cooley
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
By Mason Cooley
People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
By Mason Cooley
Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
By Mason Cooley
Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
By Mason Cooley
Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.
By Mason Cooley
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
By Mason Cooley
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
By Mason Cooley
Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
By Mason Cooley
Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
By Mason Cooley
Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.
By Mason Cooley
Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
By Mason Cooley
No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.
By Mason Cooley
My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
By Mason Cooley
My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
By Mason Cooley
My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
By Mason Cooley
My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.
By Mason Cooley
Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.
By Mason Cooley
Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
By Mason Cooley
Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.
By Mason Cooley
Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
By Mason Cooley
Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.
By Mason Cooley
Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
By Mason Cooley
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
By Mason Cooley
