Giving Quotes by Mason Cooley

Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.

— Mason Cooley

Facts do not give advice.

— Mason Cooley

The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport.

— Mason Cooley

Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.

— Mason Cooley

Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.

— Mason Cooley

Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.

— Mason Cooley

A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.

— Mason Cooley

Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.

— Mason Cooley

A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.

— Mason Cooley

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

— Mason Cooley

Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.

— Mason Cooley

Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.

— Mason Cooley

Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.

— Mason Cooley

Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.

— Mason Cooley

Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

— Mason Cooley

At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

— Mason Cooley

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

— Mason Cooley

Methodology gives those with no ideas something to do.

— Mason Cooley

The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.

— Mason Cooley

Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

— Mason Cooley

Money gives me more energy than all the Granola bars in the world.

— Mason Cooley

The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.

— Mason Cooley