Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining. — Mason Cooley Amount Copy Share Image
The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances. — Mason Cooley Bathroom Copy Share Image
Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want? — Mason Cooley Flattery Copy Share Image
Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue. — Mason Cooley Alone lonely Copy Share Image
Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided. — Mason Cooley Arguing Copy Share Image
My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love. — Mason Cooley Eye Copy Share Image
Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable. — Mason Cooley Absent Copy Share Image
Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past, but memory provides no clue. — Mason Cooley Brown Copy Share Image
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance. — Mason Cooley Equality Copy Share Image
Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private. — Mason Cooley Innovation Copy Share Image
Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description. — Mason Cooley Description Copy Share Image
Rule of science: only exclude purpose, and Nature will reveal her causes. — Mason Cooley Causes Copy Share Image
As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner. — Mason Cooley Comforter Copy Share Image
My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic. — Mason Cooley Ambition Copy Share Image
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life. — Mason Cooley Country Copy Share Image
Lovers' quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are. — Mason Cooley Cases Copy Share Image
A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet. — Mason Cooley Funny Copy Share Image
Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish. — Mason Cooley Excess Copy Share Image
The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth. — Mason Cooley Artist Copy Share Image
Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture. — Mason Cooley Cooking Copy Share Image
The family is on its way out; couples go next; then no more keeping cats or parrots. — Mason Cooley Cat Copy Share Image
Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back. — Mason Cooley Benevolent Copy Share Image
Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue. — Mason Cooley Comfort Copy Share Image
The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted. — Mason Cooley Granted Copy Share Image
Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism. — Mason Cooley Criticism Copy Share Image
Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures. — Mason Cooley Failure Copy Share Image
