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
friends vanity
Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.
friends drinking accomplices
Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.
friends enemy dangerous
An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend.
friends young-friends youth
My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.
friends death book
Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.
friendship old-friends lovers
An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.
friendship destiny cry
When love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend.
friendship sex funny-friend
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason
friendship new-friends found
The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.
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.