100 Quotes By Mason Cooley


Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.
Mason Cooley on advice

Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.
Mason Cooley on advice

My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.
Mason Cooley on avarice

Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.
Mason Cooley on bore

Never ask a bore a question.
Mason Cooley on bore

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
Mason Cooley on change

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
Mason Cooley on change

Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.
Mason Cooley on change

Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!
Mason Cooley on change

I change my opinions often, but not my way of thinking.
Mason Cooley on change

Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.
Mason Cooley on decision

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.
Mason Cooley on decision

Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.
Mason Cooley on risk

In love, self-love is always at risk.
Mason Cooley on risk

Wit puts politicians at risk.
Mason Cooley on risk

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.
Mason Cooley on risk

Life is the risk we cannot refuse.
Mason Cooley on risk

When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.
Mason Cooley on understanding

Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion.
Mason Cooley on understanding

Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.
Mason Cooley on understanding