Mason Cooley
Mason Cooley
Mason Cooleywas an American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. One of these such aphorisms Cooley developed was "The time I kill is killing me."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
flattery please fastidious
Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.
real age libel
Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.
people age twenties
People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.
age gone littles
In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment.
age eras worship
Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.
up-in-the-air noses gone
If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.
should existence plans
If you should ever acknowledge my existence, I plan to snub you.
friends vanity
Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.
lying vanity healthy
Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.
vanity spiteful hungry
Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.
dutch painting daily-life
Dutch painting: daily life is enough.
morning clerks daily-life
Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.
past body flesh
The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange.
beautiful ambitious body
In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.