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
advice trouble
The price of telling your troubles is having to listen to advice.
giving advice facts
Facts do not give advice.
advice flying fortune-cookie
Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.
advice helpful loan
Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.
advice may want
Of course I want to be good, but that may not be to your advantage.
advice trying paradox
To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.
past advice ignorant
The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice.
advice ears mouths
Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.
I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.
nice literature hobbies
Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.
im-sorry sorry mistrust
Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.
art avant-garde care
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.
stories literature insult
Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.
beginning-middle-and-end abandoned ends
The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.