People Quotes by Mason Cooley

Most people find just being themselves not enough of a show.

— Mason Cooley

People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.

— Mason Cooley

Beautiful people are forgiven more often than the rest.

— Mason Cooley

Self-pity makes people callous.

— Mason Cooley

To win hearts, smile kindly on people's weaknesses.

— Mason Cooley

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

— Mason Cooley

People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Holding unconventional opinions makes people feel they have strong characters.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

People often are unsure whether or not they are in love, but they generally know whether or not they are having sex.

— Mason Cooley

The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.

— Mason Cooley

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

— Mason Cooley

Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.

— Mason Cooley

Sexual attraction pairs people, but does not match them.

— Mason Cooley

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

— Mason Cooley

When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

— Mason Cooley

People invent gods to explain their suffering.

— Mason Cooley

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.

— Mason Cooley

I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation.

— Mason Cooley

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

— Mason Cooley

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

— Mason Cooley

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.

— Mason Cooley

The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues.

— Mason Cooley