Mason Cooley
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.Collection: Faith
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.Collection: Courage
Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.Collection: New
Money: power at its most liquid.Collection: Money
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.Collection: Society
Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.Collection: Pet
Even cats grow lonely and anxious.Collection: Pet
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.Collection: Pet
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.Collection: Travel
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.Collection: Money
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.Collection: Wisdom
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.Collection: Friendship
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.Collection: Imagination
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.Collection: Wisdom
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.Collection: Faith
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.Collection: Equality
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.Collection: Humor
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.Collection: Alone
The time I kill is killing me.Collection: Time
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.Collection: Amazing
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.Collection: Moving
Romantics consider common sense vulgar.Collection: Romantic
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.Collection: Failure
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.Collection: Imagination
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.Collection: Imagination
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.Collection: Wisdom
Cure for an obsession: get another one.Collection: Funny
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.Collection: Change
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.Collection: Romantic
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.Collection: Forgiveness
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.Collection: Faith
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.Collection: Age
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.Collection: Art
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.Collection: Alone
Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.Collection: Politics
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.Collection: Change
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.Collection: Happiness
We make some changes. But mostly changes make us.Collection: Change
Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.Collection: Complaining
Being charming takes time and effort, and I am busy.Collection: Time
To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.Collection: Money
Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.Collection: Book
Nobody likes to offer stupidity as an excuse.Collection: Stupidity
Silence kills scandal.Collection: Silence
To appear well dressed, be skinny and tall.Collection: Style
When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.Collection: Success
Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.Collection: Phrases
The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.Collection: Elderly
Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.Collection: Interesting
At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough.Collection: Loss