Quote

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

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
Fail
Succeed
Failing
Literature
Friends
Feel
Resentful
Feels
Superior
Superiors

More quotes by Mason Cooley

Image
Publish in haste and repent at leisure.
Mason Cooley
Image
You know you're in love when you stop comparing.
Mason Cooley
Image
I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.
Mason Cooley
Image
I keep eating for fear I will be hungry.
Mason Cooley
Image
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
Mason Cooley
Image
The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.
Mason Cooley
Image
Everyone makes sexy sounds relatively few, sexy sights.
Mason Cooley
Image
Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
Mason Cooley
Image
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
Mason Cooley
Image
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
Mason Cooley
Image
Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast.
Mason Cooley
Image
Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.
Mason Cooley
Image
Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.
Mason Cooley
Image
A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.
Mason Cooley
Image
Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.
Mason Cooley
Image
Pornography and cooking shows have created two new spectator sports.
Mason Cooley
Image
Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.
Mason Cooley
Image
The question you're not supposed to ask is the important one.
Mason Cooley
Image
I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.
Mason Cooley
Image
As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner.
Mason Cooley