Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer. — Mason Cooley Asking Copy Share Image
After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave. — Mason Cooley Chained Copy Share Image
I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly. — Mason Cooley Care Copy Share Image
After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy. — Mason Cooley Age Copy Share Image
Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for. — Mason Cooley Giving Copy Share Image
My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I… — Mason Cooley Earnest Copy Share Image
The lion cares less about being king of the beasts than about finding his dinner. — Mason Cooley Beast Copy Share Image
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley Different Copy Share Image
Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age. — Mason Cooley Age Copy Share Image
The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit. — Mason Cooley Aphorism Copy Share Image
Orgies are an early form of what will someday become sex by committee. — Mason Cooley Committees Copy Share Image
