Quote

Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.

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
Imprudence
Misdeeds
Prudence
Actual
Gets
Trouble

More quotes by Mason Cooley

Image
The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.
Mason Cooley
Image
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
Mason Cooley
Image
Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.
Mason Cooley
Image
Passion cooks. Reason cleans.
Mason Cooley
Image
When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.
Mason Cooley
Image
People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.
Mason Cooley
Image
Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.
Mason Cooley
Image
Satire is born of the cities it denounces.
Mason Cooley
Image
A quick smile is more seductive than a slinky dress.
Mason Cooley
Image
Like love, grief fades in and out.
Mason Cooley
Image
Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.
Mason Cooley
Image
Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.
Mason Cooley
Image
We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.
Mason Cooley
Image
I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is.
Mason Cooley
Image
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Mason Cooley
Image
The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.
Mason Cooley
Image
The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.
Mason Cooley
Image
The price of telling your troubles is having to listen to advice.
Mason Cooley
Image
The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.
Mason Cooley
Image
More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.
Mason Cooley