Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness. — Mason Cooley Forgetfulness Copy Share Image
The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young. — Mason Cooley People Copy Share Image
Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice. — Mason Cooley Advice Copy Share Image
The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy. — Mason Cooley Infancy Copy Share Image
Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes. — Mason Cooley Comfort Copy Share Image
Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories. — Mason Cooley Love Copy Share Image
If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you… — Mason Cooley Better things Copy Share Image
Never trust the judgment of an enthusiastic man; never trust the promises of a lazy one. — Mason Cooley Enthusiastic Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Deprived Copy Share Image
Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully — Mason Cooley Attention Copy Share Image
As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now. — Mason Cooley Feels Copy Share Image
Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself. — Mason Cooley Character Copy Share Image
