Quotes from Mason Cooley

The real secrets are not the ones I tell.

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

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

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

Never ask a bore a question.

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

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

Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

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

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

Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.

Never trust the judgment of an enthusiastic man; never trust the promises of a lazy one.