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
children joy parent
Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse.
parent adults feels
When you feel protective toward your parents, you have become an adult.
children parent doctrine
Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.
children parent natural
Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.
parent sorrow solace
My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
children parent auditions
Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.
children parent trouble
Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children.
children parent age
The children of childish parents age quickly.
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.