Quote

Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.

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
Perhaps
Wish
Found
Ever
Would
Like
Fortunately
Fulfilled
Wishes

More quotes by Mason Cooley

Image
Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
Mason Cooley
Image
Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.
Mason Cooley
Image
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
Mason Cooley
Image
Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.
Mason Cooley
Image
Rebuttals never alter desire.
Mason Cooley
Image
Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.
Mason Cooley
Image
Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.
Mason Cooley
Image
Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.
Mason Cooley
Image
Moderation shifts when extremes do.
Mason Cooley
Image
The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.
Mason Cooley
Image
Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.
Mason Cooley
Image
If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.
Mason Cooley
Image
The real reality is always just around the corner.
Mason Cooley
Image
Passion impels our deeds ideology supplies the explanations.
Mason Cooley
Image
Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost.
Mason Cooley
Image
Sensuality takes planning and work.
Mason Cooley
Image
Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved
Mason Cooley
Image
Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.
Mason Cooley
Image
The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame.
Mason Cooley
Image
Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.
Mason Cooley