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
nature men innocence
Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.
nature dirty men
Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.
nature gun power
Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.
fashion nature desire
The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.
nature ideas seems
Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day.
nature way deviance
Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way.
nature enough fortune
If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.
humanity human-nature scoundrels
Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.
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.