People Quotes by Mason Cooley · Page 2

People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.

— Mason Cooley

People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.

— Mason Cooley

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

— Mason Cooley

Listen to what people say about themselves; they will tell you everything you need to know.

— Mason Cooley

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

— Mason Cooley

The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.

— Mason Cooley

Since we hate the same people, we should be friends.

— Mason Cooley

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

— Mason Cooley

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

— Mason Cooley

When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

— Mason Cooley

Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.

— Mason Cooley

Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

— Mason Cooley

To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.

— Mason Cooley

Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.

— Mason Cooley

People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.

— Mason Cooley

A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.

— Mason Cooley

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

— Mason Cooley

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

— Mason Cooley

Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.

— Mason Cooley

Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

— Mason Cooley

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

— Mason Cooley

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

— Mason Cooley