Hard Quotes by Mason Cooley

It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.

— Mason Cooley

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

— Mason Cooley

People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.

— Mason Cooley

Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.

— Mason Cooley

Fluency avoids hard thoughts.

— Mason Cooley

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

— Mason Cooley

Happiness is often hard-hearted.

— Mason Cooley

The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may.

— Mason Cooley

Lovers remain in the dark, working hard to keep out daylight.

— Mason Cooley

Moderation in all things is best, but it's pretty hard to get excited about it.

— Mason Cooley

If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.

— Mason Cooley

Don't milk the cow too hard. She will kick you.

— Mason Cooley

Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.

— Mason Cooley

A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.

— Mason Cooley

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

— Mason Cooley

The public is a hibernating bear, hard to awaken and fond of honey.

— Mason Cooley

Yawns are hard to refute.

— Mason Cooley

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

— Mason Cooley

It is hard to speak of sex without being clinical, brutal, or romantic.

— Mason Cooley