Mason Cooley

“The passion for money is never fickle.”

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

“The only peace is being out of earshot.”

“Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.”

“The time I kill is killing me.”

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

“The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.”

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

“Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.”

“Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.”

“At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.”

“Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.”

“Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.”

“Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.”