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
giving vices pleasure
Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
mind body pleasure
Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
acting actors pleasure
The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.
pain consciousness pleasure
Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.
puritan pleasure duty
The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.
gone pleasure sour
Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.
pleasure pursue
I pursue pleasure, but stingily, suspiciously.
misery pleasure
I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.
money perfect pleasure
The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.
work melancholy pleasure
Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.
work pleasure
I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.
happiness pleasure
Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.
pleasure spoilers
Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.
vacation pleasure prove
Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.