1,425 Quotes by Mason Cooley

The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

The familiar changes as we cling to it.

A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are.

In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.

The best hand always believes in playing by the rules.

Enjoy the insult as you deliver it, before you learn its cost.

Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

Working cuts down on both folly and wisdom.