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Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.
— Mason Cooley
Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.
— Mason Cooley
Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.
— Mason Cooley
Creativity is not a substitute for competence.
— Mason Cooley
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
— Charles Horton Cooley
The desire to be significant casts a pall.
— Mason Cooley
In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.
— Mason Cooley
Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.
— Mason Cooley
The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.
— Mason Cooley
Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
— Mason Cooley
We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.
— Mason Cooley
The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
— Charles Horton Cooley
Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.
— Mason Cooley
Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.
— Mason Cooley
The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.
— Mason Cooley
Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
— Mason Cooley
Money is a better tonic than Geritol.
— Mason Cooley
I had come to appreciate the reality of solitude and the illusion of community that bars provide.
— Martha Cooley
The real reality is always just around the corner.
— Mason Cooley
People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.
— Mason Cooley
Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.
— Mason Cooley
A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.
— Mason Cooley
Some crave grief like strong drink.
— Mason Cooley
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
— Mason Cooley
Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.
— Mason Cooley
Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.
— Mason Cooley
Life is always rich, thought only occasionally so.
— Mason Cooley
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
— Mason Cooley
Many gloat over their own troubles.
— Mason Cooley
Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.
— Mason Cooley
Money: power at its most liquid.
— Mason Cooley
Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
— Mason Cooley
Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.
— Mason Cooley
Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.
— Mason Cooley
Dutch painting: daily life is enough.
— Mason Cooley
People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.
— Mason Cooley
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
— Mason Cooley
Self-reform is the only kind that works.
— Mason Cooley
Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
— Mason Cooley
The neuroses parody the virtues.
— Mason Cooley
In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.
— Mason Cooley
If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.
— Mason Cooley
Working cuts down on both folly and wisdom.
— Mason Cooley
If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
— Mason Cooley
My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me.
— Mason Cooley
After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.
— Mason Cooley
Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery.
— Mason Cooley
The eros of advertising is lurid but not specific.
— Mason Cooley
Duty is whatever opposes inclination.
— Mason Cooley
Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.
— Mason Cooley
Age: I go slower as time goes faster.
— Mason Cooley
Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice.
— Mason Cooley
The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.
— Mason Cooley
Insecurity is not just a state of mind.
— Mason Cooley
Facts do not give advice.
— Mason Cooley
Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The Lover runs away.
— Mason Cooley
A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are.
— Mason Cooley
Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first.
— Mason Cooley
