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
literature trouble fulfillment
Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
trouble nobody-knows knows
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.
gone trouble
Our troubles keep us going.
trouble
More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.
advice trouble
The price of telling your troubles is having to listen to advice.
trouble
Many gloat over their own troubles.
children parent trouble
Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children.
trouble prudence misdeeds
Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.
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.