Top 1384 Quotes & Sayings by Mason Cooley
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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
The beloved is the ultimate fetish.
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
Money: power at its most liquid.
Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.
We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.
Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
Cure for an obsession: get another one.
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.
Fears and lies intensify consciousness.
The time I kill is killing me.
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
A blocked path also offers guidance.
'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
Documents create a paper reality we call proof.
Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.
Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.
The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.
Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.
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