A Quote by Mason Cooley

Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.

Robert Southey

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

Laurence J. Peter

The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to free our lives from worldly desires, worldly thinking, worldly pleasures, worldly dreams, worldly ideals, worldly values, worldly ambitions, and worldly acclaim, then we must focus our lives on another world.

David Platt

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Francis Quarles

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

Marilyn Monroe

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

Helen Rowland

I can always go back to Jane Austen. 'Mansfield Park' is full of wise aphorisms and relevant observations of people.

Viv Albertine

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

John Buchan

Though the Americans can be fooled, as they have been, and they can be propagandized, as they have been... But, as Lincoln said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time. But you can't fool all of the people all of the time." And so hope lies in the fact that little by little, even if the American people can be fooled, even if they continue to be fooled in the 2004 presidential election, they will gradually learn, as they have learned - for instance, in the Vietnam War and turned against the Vietnam War.

Howard Zinn

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

George Eliot

It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you.

Harper Lee

Inner Nature, when relied on, cannot be fooled. But many people do not look at it or listen to it, and consequently do not understand themselves very much. Having little understanding of themselves, they have little respect for themselves, and are therefore easily influenced by others.

Benjamin Hoff

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

George Eliot

The cool thing about the Internet now is it's democratized platforms. Like, anybody can create a blog. Anybody can give themselves some type of place where their work is visible.

Luvvie Ajayi

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