Quote

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

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
Sure

More quotes by Mason Cooley

Image
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
Mason Cooley
Image
Wit puts politicians at risk.
Mason Cooley
Image
I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.
Mason Cooley
Image
I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.
Mason Cooley
Image
Vulgarity is innocent urbanity is not.
Mason Cooley
Image
Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.
Mason Cooley
Image
Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.
Mason Cooley
Image
The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.
Mason Cooley
Image
Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.
Mason Cooley
Image
In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.
Mason Cooley
Image
Never trust the judgment of an enthusiastic man never trust the promises of a lazy one.
Mason Cooley
Image
Pornography supplies the only really safe sex.
Mason Cooley
Image
Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma.
Mason Cooley
Image
In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.
Mason Cooley
Image
Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.
Mason Cooley
Image
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
Mason Cooley
Image
Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.
Mason Cooley
Image
The real secrets are not the ones I tell.
Mason Cooley
Image
Satire is born of the cities it denounces.
Mason Cooley
Image
Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.
Mason Cooley