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
married rich poor
Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.
riches poverty poor
The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.
merit rich feels
The rich feel full of merit.
rich should
The rich are happier than we are, and should be.
may rich easy
The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may.
air rich behavior
Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.
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.
freedom lateness late
Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.