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
character emergencies faults
Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.
character describing my-own
In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.
world
Most of us live in a world that has ceased to exist.
needs world
The world needs an enema.
halos holiness fame
Fame now wears the halo that once crowned holiness.
faithful fickle obscurity
Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end.
may rich easy
The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may.
world poverty tin
Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.
past doe depends
The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.
past betray
The present necessarily betrays the past.
past wind tripping
To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.
past issues people
The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues.
past may way
Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.
past waiting always-waiting
The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.