Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age. — Mason Cooley Age Copy Share Image
The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart. — Mason Cooley Being together Copy Share Image
After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy. — Mason Cooley Age Copy Share Image
One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger. — Mason Cooley Anger Copy Share Image
A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach. — Mason Cooley Cities Copy Share Image
Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others. — Mason Cooley Adventure Copy Share Image
Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering. — Mason Cooley Drug Copy Share Image
Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse. — Mason Cooley Boredom Copy Share Image
The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it. — Mason Cooley Art Copy Share Image
Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages. — Mason Cooley Cooperation Copy Share Image
