Quote

I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.

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
Chew
Miseries
Pleasures
Misery
Pleasure
Gulp

More quotes by Mason Cooley

Image
Only death goes deeper than sex.
Mason Cooley
Image
Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.
Mason Cooley
Image
Pity drowns in numbers.
Mason Cooley
Image
Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.
Mason Cooley
Image
Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.
Mason Cooley
Image
I deplore my shortcomings, but plan to keep them.
Mason Cooley
Image
Losing gracefully is commended but never chosen.
Mason Cooley
Image
Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.
Mason Cooley
Image
Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.
Mason Cooley
Image
Leisure unmasks our weaknesses.
Mason Cooley
Image
Unlike art and sex, money always arouses interest.
Mason Cooley
Image
Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.
Mason Cooley
Image
Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
Mason Cooley
Image
Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.
Mason Cooley
Image
Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.
Mason Cooley
Image
Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.
Mason Cooley
Image
Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point.
Mason Cooley
Image
I have forgiven you. Nevertheless, begone!
Mason Cooley
Image
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
Mason Cooley
Image
The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.
Mason Cooley