Quote

Being enthusiastic settles nothing.

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
Settles
Enthusiastic
Settling
Enthusiasm
Nothing

More quotes by Mason Cooley

Image
Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.
Mason Cooley
Image
Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.
Mason Cooley
Image
Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.
Mason Cooley
Image
What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?
Mason Cooley
Image
Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.
Mason Cooley
Image
Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.
Mason Cooley
Image
My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.
Mason Cooley
Image
If the current is right, one can drift to success.
Mason Cooley
Image
The passion for money is never fickle.
Mason Cooley
Image
I keep renaming my motives, but continue doing the same things.
Mason Cooley
Image
I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.
Mason Cooley
Image
It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
Mason Cooley
Image
Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.
Mason Cooley
Image
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
Mason Cooley
Image
Successful innovations become conventions.
Mason Cooley
Image
I keep eating for fear I will be hungry.
Mason Cooley
Image
Moderation in all things is best, but it's pretty hard to get excited about it.
Mason Cooley
Image
Life is what it makes you.
Mason Cooley
Image
Saying I feel guilty is a mere form of words. Saying I feel ashamed is not.
Mason Cooley
Image
Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.
Mason Cooley