Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
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Mason Cooley
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About Mason Cooley
Mason Cooley was an American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. One of the aphorisms Cooley developed was "The time I kill is killing me."
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Mason CooleyWomen encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
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Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
The time I kill is killing me.
If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
Money: power at its most liquid.
The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.