The price of telling your troubles is having to listen to advice. — Mason Cooley Advice Copy Share Image
Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful. — Mason Cooley Failure Copy Share Image
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Excrement can never be culturally elaborated to the extent that nutriment can. — Mason Cooley Excrement Copy Share Image
Those who follow where their genitals lead them often wind up in tedious company. — Mason Cooley Business Copy Share Image
The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole. — Mason Cooley Beloved Copy Share Image
Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle. — Mason Cooley Metaphor Copy Share Image
Lovers' quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around. — Mason Cooley Aphorism Copy Share Image
The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame. — Mason Cooley Shame Copy Share Image
Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos. — Mason Cooley Ethos Copy Share Image
Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream. — Mason Cooley America Copy Share Image
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life. — Mason Cooley Country Copy Share Image
Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous. — Mason Cooley Feelings Copy Share Image
Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time. — Mason Cooley Affair Copy Share Image
Your need to talk does not create in me a need to listen. — Mason Cooley Communication Copy Share Image
Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues. — Mason Cooley Chastity Copy Share Image
