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
disappointment funny-friend laughing
Laughing at our friends, we avenge the disappointment they have caused.
funny-relationship talking cheerful
Nothing is more cheerful than talking about our friends' shortcomings.
funny laughing would-be
A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.
funny country cities
City wits, country humorists.
friendship sex funny-friend
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason
funny blessing boredom
Even boredom has its crises.
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.