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
path morality decorum
Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
reading ethos pathos
Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.
cutting machines path
The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.
lying literature path
Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
confusion understanding path
Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion...
path guidance blocked
A blocked path also offers guidance.
loss curves path
At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough.
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.