Mason Cooley
The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.Collection: Today
Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.Collection: Farewell
Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.Collection: Work
A blocked path also offers guidance.Collection: Path
An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it.Collection: Tired
Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.Collection: Pain
Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.Collection: Law
Every declaration of love contains an unstated list of exceptions and demands.Collection: Demand
Do not wait for a reason to be happy.Collection: Happiness
Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.Collection: Blessing
Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.Collection: Waiting
What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.Collection: Lying
In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.Collection: Worry
The children of childish parents age quickly.Collection: Children
A quick smile is more seductive than a slinky dress.Collection: Smile
You know you're in love when you stop comparing.Collection: Love
Trust, but look for the exits.Collection: Trust
Your need to talk does not create in me a need to listen.Collection: Talking
Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point.Collection: Love
Constant talkers are unheard.Collection: Talkers
Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.Collection: Sacrifice
Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.Collection: Struggle
Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself.Collection: Analysis
I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.Collection: Towns
Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.Collection: Art
Infallibility and invincible ignorance are the same thing.Collection: Ignorance
Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.Collection: Lust
Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.Collection: Guilt
Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes.Collection: Costumes
Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.Collection: Asceticism
The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.Collection: Cameras
What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me.Collection: Destiny
The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does.Collection: Eye
Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea.Collection: Excess
To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.Collection: Advice
Of course I want to be good, but that may not be to your advantage.Collection: Advice
Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.Collection: Air
Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.Collection: Trouble
Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.Collection: Doe
In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.Collection: Important
Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.Collection: Country
The transcendental promises a vacation from history.Collection: Vacation
It is not confused. We are.Collection: Confused
Pity drowns in numbers.Collection: Numbers
The question you're not supposed to ask is the important one.Collection: Important
Futility has become a great subject, full of opportunities.Collection: Opportunity
Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.Collection: Kindness
Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly.Collection: Sulking
Talent shuffles the deck. Genius brings a new deck.Collection: Genius