Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Mason Cooley (American Aphorist)

Mason Cooley (1927–2002) was an American aphorist. He was professor emeritus of French, speech and world literature at the College of Staten Island. He was also an assistant professor of English at Columbia University from 1959 to 1967 and an adjunct professor from 1980 to 1988. He received his B.A. from San Diego State University and his Ph.D. from Oxford.

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Listening to people keeps them entertained.
Mason Cooley
Topics: Listening

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.
Mason Cooley
Topics: Unemployment

Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.
Mason Cooley

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist’s office would be full of luminous ideas.
Mason Cooley

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
Mason Cooley
Topics: Thinking

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.
Mason Cooley
Topics: The Past

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves
Mason Cooley
Topics: Compassion

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
Mason Cooley
Topics: Reality

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
Mason Cooley
Topics: Logic, Thinking

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
Mason Cooley
Topics: Perspective

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Mason Cooley

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
Mason Cooley

Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.
Mason Cooley

Opportunity knocks, but doesn’t always answer to its name.
Mason Cooley

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
Mason Cooley

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
Mason Cooley

Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.
Mason Cooley
Topics: One liners, Enjoyment

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind
Mason Cooley
Topics: Sharing

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.
Mason Cooley
Topics: Apathy

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
Mason Cooley
Topics: Logic

Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?
Mason Cooley

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
Mason Cooley
Topics: Tourism, Travel

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
Mason Cooley
Topics: Thinking

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
Mason Cooley
Topics: Procrastination

Indifference creates an artificial peace.
Mason Cooley
Topics: Apathy

I keep eating for fear I will be hungry.
Mason Cooley
Topics: Eating

Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved
Mason Cooley

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
Mason Cooley

At the end of every diet, he path curves back to the trough.
Mason Cooley
Topics: Diet

I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.
Mason Cooley
Topics: Cynicism

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