Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 9

• The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.

  Mason Cooley

  Reality, Absurd, Fortresses

  5 Copy quote

• Talent shuffles the deck. Genius brings a new deck.

  Mason Cooley

  Genius, Talent, Deck

  5 Copy quote

• A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Long, Silence

  5 Copy quote

• The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.

  Mason Cooley

  Letting Go, Wedding, Boredom

  5 Copy quote

• Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.

  Mason Cooley

  Sweet, Revenge, Revenge Is Sweet

  7 Copy quote

• Winning means outlasting everyone else.

  Mason Cooley

  Mean, Winning, Outlasting

  9 Copy quote

• Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

  Mason Cooley

  Spring, Cutting, Arrogance

  6 Copy quote

• In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.

  Mason Cooley

  Labyrinth, Path, Monsters

  8 Copy quote

• Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.

  Mason Cooley

  People, May, Belief

  5 Copy quote

• Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Literature

  5 Copy quote

• Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Logic, Teach

  50 Copy quote

• It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.

  Mason Cooley

  Truth, Lying, Hard

  6 Copy quote

• Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Sofas, Ideology

  "City Aphorisms: Third Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1986.

  7 Copy quote

• The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

  Mason Cooley

  Knives, May, Retreat

  4 Copy quote

• Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.

  Mason Cooley

  Dream, Facts, Scholarship

  5 Copy quote

• Discontented women dream of being rescued by Prince Charming. Discontented men dream of finding a horny blond in the back seat ofa taxi.

  Mason Cooley

  Dream, Men, Horny

  5 Copy quote

• I am forbidden sugar, fat, and alcohol. So hooray, I guess, for oatmeal, lemon juice, and chicken soup.

  Mason Cooley

  Oatmeal, Alcohol, Dieting

  5 Copy quote

• At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.

  Mason Cooley

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  8 Copy quote

• Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

  Mason Cooley

  Life, Broken, Keep Moving

  9 Copy quote

• Necessity makes heroes of us all.

  Mason Cooley

  Hero

  5 Copy quote

• Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

  Mason Cooley

  Advice, Ears, Mouths

  "City Aphorisms, Second Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1985.

  7 Copy quote

• The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

  Mason Cooley

  Soul, Comfort, Doctrine

  8 Copy quote

• After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

  Mason Cooley

  Success, Congratulations, Ordinary

  7 Copy quote

• The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.

  Mason Cooley

  Beginning Middle And End, Abandoned, Ends

  4 Copy quote

• Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

  Mason Cooley

  Stories, Literature, Insult

  6 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Denis Waitley

Robert A. Heinlein

H. L. Mencken

Henry Adams

Napoleon Hill

Walter Mischel

Elbert Hubbard

Dale Carnegie