100 Quotes By Mason Cooley

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The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
Mason Cooley on age

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
Mason Cooley on age

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
Mason Cooley on age

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
Mason Cooley on age

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
Mason Cooley on alone

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
Mason Cooley on alone

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
Mason Cooley on amazing

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
Mason Cooley on art

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
Mason Cooley on art

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
Mason Cooley on art

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
Mason Cooley on art

Art seduces, but does not exploit.
Mason Cooley on art

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
Mason Cooley on beauty

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

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
Mason Cooley on change

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

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
Mason Cooley on courage

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

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
Mason Cooley on death

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
Mason Cooley on equality