Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 9

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

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  Men, Literature

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• Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

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  Thinking, Logic, Teach

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

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  Truth, Lying, Hard

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

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  Knives, May, Retreat

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

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  Dream, Facts, Scholarship

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

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  Dream, Men, Horny

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

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  Oatmeal, Alcohol, Dieting

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

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  Literature, Sofas, Ideology

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

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• Necessity makes heroes of us all.

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  Hero

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

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  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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

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  Life, Broken, Keep Moving

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• Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

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  Time, Regret, Wasted Life

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

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  Advice, Ears, Mouths

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

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

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  Soul, Comfort, Doctrine

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

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  Success, Congratulations, Ordinary

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• Warning: fortune cookies don't care what happens to you.

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  Fortune Cookie, Cookies, Warning

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• Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

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  Comedy, Surface, Profundity

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• Lies save trouble now, but may return in thunder and lightning.

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  Lying, Lightning, May

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• Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.

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  Innovation, Tradition, Stealing

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• Successful innovations become conventions.

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  Successful, Innovation, Conventions

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• Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.

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  Want, Privilege, Victimization

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• Many attempt to harvest what was never planted.

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  Harvest

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• Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.

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  Order, Giving, Comfort

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• The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.

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  Mind, Demand, Facts

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• Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

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  Modern, Paint, Depiction

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