A Quote by Mason Cooley

Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.

Mason Cooley

Quote Topics

Enjoyment Folly Frivolous Sorrow

Quote Author

Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.

Mason Cooley

As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.

Akiva Goldsman

Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public.

Linda Ronstadt

The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.

C.P. Cavafy

I am frivolous. But sometimes, that's the problem of my Christian education, when I know I've been frivolous, and I know I have to do it, then I feel guilty.

Catherine Deneuve

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Iris Murdoch

Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a point where litigious becomes frivolous. And when you file frivolous lawsuits you can be hit by sanctions. I don't see the basis for suing "The New York Times." Ironically, it was "The New York Times" that was the plaintiff in "The New York Times" versus Sullivan.

Megyn Kelly

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

Sophie Swetchine

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

Susan Sontag

I think that's one of the major overriding issues of the day, to deal with frivolous lawsuits. I think it creates a tremendous burden on our economy, a tremendous burden on health care, it creates all of this medicine, which is good medicine. It would be one of the most important things we could do. It, also would help the economy. A tremendous amount of money is taken out of our economy and a tremendous that is created by these frivolous lawsuits.