A Quote by Mason Cooley

The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation. — © Mason Cooley
The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.
Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work out. I'm a cheerful pessimist.
Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.
Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.
If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.
If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.
I love fantasizing about what my next meal is going to be; it's probably my favorite topic of conversation.
Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.
The Führer is always quite cheerful, cheerful with all his heart, when he is having tea with his friends during the night, or when he is training his dogs!
The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of winning the conversation by controlling the conversation.
In democratic countries, however opulent a man is supposed to be, he is almost always discontented with his fortune, because he finds that he is less rich than his father was, and he fears that his sons will be less rich than himself.
As an editorial cartoonist now, I live for those moments of inspiration, and it is exhilarating to be inspired by a topic, have an opinion on the topic, come up with a good cartoon on the topic, and to draw it and get it in the paper the next day. That is what I live for.
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