Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 50

• Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.

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  Age, Likes, Signs Of Life

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• Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.

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  Nature, Dirty, Men

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• Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

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  Men, Age, Affection

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• As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

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  Trying, Age, Decay

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• Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.

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  Age, Lifetime, Old Age

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• In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.

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  Real, Rude, Feelings

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• Family romances are the only ones that never turn out happily.

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  Family, Romance, Turns

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• The family is on its way out; couples go next; then no more keeping cats or parrots.

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  Family, Couple, Cat

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• When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.

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  Trying, Wave, Disaster

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• Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!

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  Thank God, Age, Cuisine

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• Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

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  Self, Would Be, Asceticism

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• The morose one refuses to smile even when he has just had his teeth cleaned.

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  Smile, Sadness, Teeth

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• Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.

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  Morning, Clerks, Daily Life

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• Dutch painting: daily life is enough.

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  Dutch, Painting, Daily Life

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• Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.

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  Lying, Vanity, Healthy

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• Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.

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  Real, Age, Middle

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• Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

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  Flattery, Please, Fastidious

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• My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love.

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  Mother, Sadness, Eye

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• My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.

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  Mother, Clinging, Wanted

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• My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

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  Father, Age, Ghost

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• If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.

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  Nature, Enough, Fortune

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• When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

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  Men, People, Modesty

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• Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.

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  Luck, Lucky, Assuming

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• The sheen of ocean gleams on the blue fish-plate.

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  Ocean, Blue, Fishing

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• The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.

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  Philosophy, Writing, Mean

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