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Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 12

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Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

Hope, Despair, Facts

Many try to force the past to change.

Change, Past, Trying

Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.

Weed, Flower, Differences

I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.

Self, Borders, Easy

"City Aphorisms: Sixth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1989.

Life is what it makes you.

Life, Life Is

Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.

Madness, Suspicion

The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.

Burning, Limits, Building

Moderation shifts when extremes do.

Moderation, Extremes

Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work.

Work, Worry, Boredom

Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.

Strength, Teacher, Weakness

Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.

Character, Emergencies, Faults

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

Indifference, Ideology, Hostility

Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

Comedy, Surface, Profundity

Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.

Kings, Equality, Giving

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

Literature, Sofas, Ideology

"City Aphorisms: Third Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1986.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

Life, Broken, Keep Moving

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

Advice, Ears, Mouths

"City Aphorisms, Second Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1985.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

Soul, Comfort, Doctrine

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

Success, Congratulations, Ordinary

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

Time, Regret, Wasted Life

Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues.

Power, Law, Issues

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

New Year, Party, Literature

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

Writing, Creativity, Acting

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

Forgiving, Dignity, Forget

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

Running, Dancing, Romance

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