C H Cooley Quotes & Sayings

The madness of love can always be suspended
to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance. — Mason Cooley

An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it. — Mason Cooley

Nothing is more cheerful than talking about our friends' shortcomings. — Mason Cooley

[The heart is] really a fascinating organ. It's about the only organ in the body that you can really witness its function. Doing things. And so on. Some of the other organs you can witness, like the intestines, will have this sort of peristaltic motion. But nothing that can compare with the activity of the human heart. — Denton Cooley

I have a special grudge against those who have the same faults as I do. — Mason Cooley

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing. — Mason Cooley

Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness. — Mason Cooley

People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority. — Mason Cooley

The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs. — Mason Cooley

First I tried some Neil Diamond, thinking that if anything was going to make the undead run for the hills it would be a nice, loud rendition of Cracklin' Rosie. But those coldsickles actually seemed to enjoy it. Very disturbing. — Mike Cooley

I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards. — Mason Cooley

Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures. — Mason Cooley

The New Right: kiss the bankers and spank the babies. — Mason Cooley

Alzheimer's usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress. — Mason Cooley

Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The Lover runs away. — Mason Cooley

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes. — Mason Cooley

Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew
in the incontestable way that children know things
that God was an author who'd imagined me, which is why I (and everyone else) existed: to populate His narrative. My task was to imagine God in return: this was all He and I owed each other. — Martha Cooley

Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father. — Mason Cooley

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. — Mason Cooley

I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else. — Mason Cooley

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. — Charles Horton Cooley

One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow. — Charles Horton Cooley

Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice. — Mason Cooley

Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel. — Mason Cooley

If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life. — Charles Horton Cooley

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death. — Mason Cooley

Posterity
the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism
grows ever harder to conceive. — Mason Cooley

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance. — Mason Cooley

I win on my merits; my opponents win by cheating. — Mason Cooley

A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort. — Mason Cooley