Inspiring Quotes by Mason Cooley - Page 2

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"Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it"

"Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred"

"Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life"

"Cure for an obsession: get another one"

"At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly"

"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables"

"When sages commend excess, Desire is sick"

"Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris"

"Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer"

"The gods are watching, but idly, yawning"

"Rereading, we find a new book"

"Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name"

"My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures"

"Money: power at its most liquid"

"Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth"

"In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners"

"In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be"

"In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words"

"If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements"

"Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs"

"Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead"

"The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch"

"The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me"

"Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage"

"After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means"

"A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places"

"Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?"

"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths"

"Never try to leap from a standstill"

"Malice is always authentic and sincere"

"Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises"

"In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same"

"If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting"

"I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think"

"A blunt statement can be as false as any other"

"A blocked path also offers guidance"

"As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance"

"Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it"

"A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats"

"Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean"

"While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote"

"When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her"

"To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little"

"The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth"

"The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past"

"Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out"

"Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are"

"I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards"

"Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful"

"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments"

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