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
fortune-cookie warning care
Warning: fortune cookies don't care what happens to you.
smile sweet judgment
Sweet smiles soften judgment. Sweet haunches unseat it.
father age ghost
My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.
mother clinging wanted
My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.
mother sadness eye
My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love.
faces mask seems
Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them.
believe enthusiasm
Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice.
enthusiasm settling enthusiastic
Being enthusiastic settles nothing.
cynicism zealot
Cynicism has its own zealots.
problem chastity treated
Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.
ties lasts dieting
Dieting is our last tie with asceticism.
asceticism way peculiar
Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.
self asceticism would-be
Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.
asceticism celibacy incapacity
Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.