1,425 Quotes by Mason Cooley

Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

Anxiety and lust are evicting the older passions.

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

Creativity is not a substitute for competence.

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.

The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.

The sun cares nothing for illumination.

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.