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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.

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

— Mason Cooley

Age

All Quotes by Mason Cooley

“Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.”

— Mason Cooley

Time

“Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.”

— Mason Cooley

Change

“The passion for money is never fickle.”

— Mason Cooley

Money

“While there's life, there's fear.”

— Mason Cooley

Fear

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

— Mason Cooley

Money

“Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.”

— Mason Cooley

Time

“Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.”

— Mason Cooley

Truth

“Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.”

— Mason Cooley

Alone

“Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.”

— Mason Cooley

Politics

“Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.”

— Mason Cooley

Amazing

“The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.”

— Mason Cooley

Power

“A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.”

— Mason Cooley

Pet

“If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.”

— Mason Cooley

Success

“Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.”

— Mason Cooley

Change

“Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.”

— Mason Cooley

Finance

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

— Mason Cooley

Wisdom

“Art seduces, but does not exploit.”

— Mason Cooley

Art

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

— Mason Cooley

Art

“Money: power at its most liquid.”

— Mason Cooley

Money

“Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.”

— Mason Cooley

Future