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
boredom hard
Yawns are hard to refute.
marriage greek married
The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.
marriage way argument
Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.
hope likes justification
Hope likes justification, but can do without.
pain names ideas
Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.
self trying pity
If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.
pain consciousness pleasure
Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.
puritan pleasure duty
The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.
people imagine certain
People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.
gone pleasure sour
Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.
pleasure pursue
I pursue pleasure, but stingily, suspiciously.
misery pleasure
I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.
missing purpose reviews
As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.
pain killers violence
Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer.