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Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley (1927–2002) was an American aphorist known for his witty, compact observations about modern urban life, relationships, and human nature. A professor of English and French at the College of Staten Island, Cooley published several collections of aphorisms that are admired for their precision and sardonic humor.

“I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.”

— Mason Cooley

Time

All Quotes by Mason Cooley

“Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.”

— Mason Cooley

Love

“As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.”

— Mason Cooley

Equality

“Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.”

— Mason Cooley

Truth

“Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.”

— Mason Cooley

Newyears

“If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.”

— Mason Cooley

Wisdom

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

— Mason Cooley

Success

“Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.”

— Mason Cooley

Travel

“In every death, a busy world comes to an end.”

— Mason Cooley

Death

“While there's life, there's fear.”

— Mason Cooley

Fear

“People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.”

— Mason Cooley

Art

“Money: power at its most liquid.”

— Mason Cooley

Money

“Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.”

— Mason Cooley

Imagination

“Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.”

— Mason Cooley

Money

“The passion for money is never fickle.”

— Mason Cooley

Money

“Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.”

— Mason Cooley

Art

“To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.”

— Mason Cooley

Money

“The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.”

— Mason Cooley

Age

“Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.”

— Mason Cooley

Faith

“I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.”

— Mason Cooley

Failure

“Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.”

— Mason Cooley

Nature