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
weed flower differences
Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.
lonely people flow
Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.
literature flow facts
Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
flower doe restaurants
A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.
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.
modern paint depiction
Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.
freedom lateness late
Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.
happiness lost complainers
Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost.
complaining pastime complaints
Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.