1,425 Quotes by Mason Cooley

Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.

Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby.

Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.

The beloved is the ultimate fetish.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.

Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want to bring along two or three friends; drunks; monologists; those who stay until three o'clock in the morning; those who think that conversation means having an argument; those who take a high moral tone; those who are stupid, ugly, or dull. Enforcement of these rules will enable one to eat alone every night in comfort.

Insecurity is not just a state of mind.

I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.