Mason Quotes & Sayings

Hi there," he said. "I hear you need to see a man about a frog. — Tim Pratt

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.' — Mason Cooley

That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which, not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge to be hereditary. — George Mason

Which is the supplement? Fantasy or daily routine? — Mason Cooley

The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat. — Mason Cooley

Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories. — Mason Cooley

The way I see it, a clever cat prowls but calls home occasionally. — Bobbie Ann Mason

Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes. — Bobbie Ann Mason

Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back. — Mason Cooley

Mrs. Roberts, you remember when Mr. Roberts was out of town and you had me over? The thing we did with the pie? Who would have thought I could eat a whole pie, but then again who would have thought you could hold an entire pie down, well, down there? — Alex Morgan

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

It's just a shirt. I have no emotional connection to it or the band. I just didn't feel like coming to work topless today."
Camden's hand slammed down on the counter. "Shit, are there days that you come topless? I would like to make sure I'm here for that. — Ashlan Thomas

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

Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature. — Charlotte M. Mason

Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and once you go southern may the good Lord help you - you never go back — Kenny Chesney

Now I realize that everything you need for measuring a person can be found in the nature of what he chooses to hide from everyone else. That's all you need to know to gauge his goodness. — Jamie Mason

I dream of summing everything up in the greatest sentence ever written. — Mason Cooley

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

The gods are watching, but idly, yawning. — Mason Cooley

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

Successfully reframing the climate debate in the United States from one based on environmental values to one based on health values ... holds great promise to help American society better understand and appreciate the risks of climate change ... — George Mason

The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances. — Mason Cooley

And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean. — Mike Mason

The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people. — George Mason

Jesus was surely not the first exorcist to walk the shores of the Sea of Galilee. In first-century Palestine, professional wonder worker was a vocation as well established as that of woodworker or mason, and far better paid. Galilee especially abounded with charismatic fantasts claiming to channel the divine for a nominal fee. Yet from the perspective of the Galileans, what set Jesus apart from his fellow exorcists and healers is that he seemed to be providing his services free of charge. — Reza Aslan

That happens a lot when people become parents, too. There's just so much at stake suddenly, and you're also witness to the total miracle of birth, and stuff like that. So I started reading tons of religious texts and checking everything out. One of the things I wanted to make sure of on the record is that it still has a "searching" vibe rather than an authoritative vibe. — Mason Jennings

Next week we'll be investigating rumours that the president of the dairy council has become a Mason, and goes around giving his colleagues the 'secret milkshake.' — Ronnie Barker

The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living, and displays the conduct which is pleasing and acceptable to God. The doctrines and examples which distinguish the Order are obvious, and suited to every capacity. It is impossible for the most fastidious Mason to misunderstand, however he might slight or neglect them. It is impossible for the most superficial brother to say that he is unable to comprehend the plain precepts and the unanswerable arguments which are furnished by Freemasonry. — William Howard Taft

Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing. — Mason Cooley

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives. — Mason Cooley

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable. — Mason Cooley

Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret. — Mason Cooley

Remember that the devil is the one who tells you to play a tune that's not your own, and you can drive him right on out into the cold by playing what's in your soul. — Jennifer Mason-Black

Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate. — Mason Cooley

It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason. — Albert Pike

Dogs often remind us of the human, ail-too human. Cats, never. — Mason Cooley

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty. — Mason Cooley

Thought enables us to see Fate coming. — Mason Cooley

The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they trek through eerie catacombs, mysterious ruins, and creepy castles that defy imagination. One part Indiana Jones, a handful of Swiss Family Robinson, and some Intergalactic excitement, the Quest for Truth is a riveting tale of just how far mankind will go for the ultimate prize. — Wayne Thomas Batson

A mathematician," he liked to say, "is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. — Mason Currey

I own over four ties. — Andrew Mason

I always hated the part when I had to look pretty. I love that I don't have to look pretty. — Marsha Mason

Mike Mason says, "A decision to rejoice in the present changes not only the present, it also changes my view of the past and ignites my future with hope."[26] I've stopped demanding that a moment last longer than it can. I don't require a moment to be anything other than what it is: a brief span of time that has been given by a gracious Father. I will wring every bit of pleasure out of this moment because I don't know when the next one will come. We're rarely satisfied with today; we spend too much time regretting the unrepeatable past and wishing we could get a do-over, or we waste our energy on worry and anxiety about the unknowable future. Either way, TODAY is ignored or minimized. — Kay Warren

Strength can only get you so far; vulnerability takes you the rest of the way. — C. Nicole Mason

Never mind what you feel. Think. Watch. Think again. And then one step at a time to put things right. As a mason puts one block at a time. To build solid and good. So with thought. Think. Build one thought at a time. Think solid. Then act. Is it? — Richard Llewellyn

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled. — Mason Cooley

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. — John Mason Good

When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper. — Andrew Mason

A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does. — Mason Cooley

Yeah, it turns out that guys don't like deals on laser hair removal or pole dancing lessons. — Andrew Mason

There were a lot of gifted amateurs in my day. Most of the kids now play fantastically well. I think there are so many bands around now who might get there, but it's a tougher journey. — Nick Mason

He wanted to hear Mhisery scream, he wanted to know she was forgetting everything that was going on except what was happening between the two of them. He wanted her to release the guilt she felt about her daddy and what she should or shouldn't be doing. He just wanted her to let it all go and just be with him in the moment. — Shyloh Morgan

My father had all these great names for our cows. Bossy and Daisy and Petunia and Turnip. One of my jobs was to round up the cows before milking. I'd go out back with the dog and bring them in. — Bobbie Ann Mason

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem. — Mason Cooley

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness. — Mason Cooley

The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice. — Mason Cooley

Here is my room, in the yellow lamplight and the space heater rumbling: Indian rug red as Cochise's blood, a desk with seven mystic drawers, a chair covered in material as velvety blue-black as Batman's cape, an aquarium holding tiny fish so pale you could see their hearts beat, the aforementioned dresser covered with decals from Revell model airplane kits, a bed with a quilt sewn by a relative of Jefferson Davis's, a closet, and the shelves, oh, yes, the shelves. The troves of treasure. On those shelves are stacks of me: hundreds of comic books- Justice League, Flash, Green Lantern, Batman, the Spirit, Blackhawk, Sgt. Rock and Easy Company, Aquaman, and the Fantastic Four ... The shelves go on for miles and miles. My collection of marbles gleams in a mason jar. My dried cicada waits to sing again in the summer. My Duncan yo-yo that whistles except the string is broken and Dad's got to fix it. — Robert McCammon

Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice. — 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

The children's lessons should provide material for their mental growth, should exercise the several powers of their minds, should furnish them with fruitful ideas, and should afford them knowledge, really valuable for its own sake, accurate, and interesting, of the kind that the child may recall as a man with profit and pleasure. — Charlotte Mason

Set your DEATH GOAL, and achieve it! — Dexter Mason

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

I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios. — Mayer Hawthorne

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire. — John Mason Brown

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

I still don't have a turkey, Mason. It slid across the floor of the Piggly Wiggly and knocked over a tower of canned sweet potatoes. — Denise Grover Swank

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

The past is beautiful / like the darkness between the fireflies. — Mason Jennings

She heard a low laugh and glanced over her shoulder, meeting Gage's amused glaze. 'You're trouble', he mouthed.
'No,' Madison thought when she went all warm and gooey inside, 'I'm in trouble. — Debbie Mason

When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox. — Mason Cooley

It's no good being exclusive if nobody wants in. — Mason Cooley

If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in. — Mason Cooley

How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything. — Mike Mason

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs. — Mason Cooley

But being able to talk to so many patients from so many walks of life gives a tremendous window into people's lives. This is not to say I want to write about individual patients, but I think that after listening to the concerns of people who are so different from me, I can more realistically portray characters who are so different from me. — Daniel Mason

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never. — Mason Cooley

The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness. — Mason Cooley

Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness. — Mason Cooley

Legal land surveyors are few and far between and can find themselves in demand. — Mark Mason

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it. — Mason Cooley

Nobody's having any babies, yet," Mason said, spreading both arms wide. Still pale after the onslaught of questions, he managed to smirk at his brothers and add, "Although I'm enjoying the practice of making them. — Lisa Carlisle

To appear well dressed, be skinny and tall. — Mason Cooley

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

I like to think of the senses as having a volume control in the brain. The volume turns up on all the other senses when you lose one. — David Mason

I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious. — Nick Mason

He sat down and played again that piece of Scriabin's that Lydia thought he played so badly, and as he began he had a sudden recollection of that stuffy, smoky cellar to which she had taken him, of those roughs he had made such friends with, and of the Russian woman, gaunt and gipsy-skinned, with her enormous eyes, who had sung those wild, barbaric songs with such a tragic abandon. Through the notes he struck he seemed to hear her raucous, harsh and yet deeply moving voice. Leslie Mason had a sensitive ear. — W. Somerset Maugham

I have to admit that I am not great at selecting music for CDs! I have a few personal favorites, and then I let my producer take it from there! — Karen Mason

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