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
modern paint depiction
Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.
dance pain shrinks
Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.
pain distance comedy
Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.
dutch painting daily-life
Dutch painting: daily life is enough.
pain real joy
Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.
long age painful
Living too long exacts a painful price.
pain names ideas
Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.
pain consciousness pleasure
Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.
pain killers violence
Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer.
pain children unhappiness
Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.
regret self painful
Most self-laceration is more noisy than painful.
pain littles moral
With every physical pain, my moral fibre unravels a little.
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.