Mason Cooley

Acknowledge your limitations or they will tyrannize over you.

— Mason Cooley

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

— Mason Cooley

Money is a better tonic than Geritol.

— Mason Cooley

Our troubles keep us going.

— Mason Cooley

Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.

— Mason Cooley

Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.

— Mason Cooley

No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.

— Mason Cooley

Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.

— Mason Cooley

Many think that assigning blame settles matters.

— Mason Cooley

Sexual boredom is ousting sexual deviance as the problem.

— Mason Cooley

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

— Mason Cooley

To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.

— Mason Cooley

In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last.

— Mason Cooley

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

— Mason Cooley

When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

— Mason Cooley

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

— Mason Cooley

Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony.

— Mason Cooley

We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions.

— Mason Cooley

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

— Mason Cooley

I may forget my dignity, but you may not.

— Mason Cooley

To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility.

— Mason Cooley

Cynicism has its own zealots.

— Mason Cooley

Rage against the world, if you like, but quietly, or the Guardians will awake.

— Mason Cooley

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

— Mason Cooley

Dogs often remind us of the human, ail-too human. Cats, never.

— Mason Cooley