Quote

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

Mason Cooley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Wiles
Adults
Literature
Use
Children
Way

More quotes by Mason Cooley

Image
Supermarkets depict abundance boutiques exclusiveness roadside stands authenticity.
Mason Cooley
Image
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
Mason Cooley
Image
A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.
Mason Cooley
Image
The noble style immobilizes its subjects.
Mason Cooley
Image
A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.
Mason Cooley
Image
Everyone makes sexy sounds relatively few, sexy sights.
Mason Cooley
Image
Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
Mason Cooley
Image
My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring.
Mason Cooley
Image
The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.
Mason Cooley
Image
A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.
Mason Cooley
Image
When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.
Mason Cooley
Image
Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.
Mason Cooley
Image
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
Mason Cooley
Image
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
Mason Cooley
Image
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
Mason Cooley
Image
Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.
Mason Cooley
Image
Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.
Mason Cooley
Image
Once discover comfort, and there is no turning back.
Mason Cooley
Image
Profusion gives pleasure up to a point then we become squeamish.
Mason Cooley
Image
We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.
Mason Cooley