Quote

There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.

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
Maybe
Indefinite
Hesitation
Affirmation
Definite
Yeah
Line
Lines

More quotes by Mason Cooley

Image
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
Mason Cooley
Image
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
Mason Cooley
Image
Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.
Mason Cooley
Image
Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.
Mason Cooley
Image
In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.
Mason Cooley
Image
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
Mason Cooley
Image
Travelling carries me to the surface, away from the deeps of home-thoughts.
Mason Cooley
Image
The Simple Life is not a simple life.
Mason Cooley
Image
Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.
Mason Cooley
Image
Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.
Mason Cooley
Image
Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
Mason Cooley
Image
More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.
Mason Cooley
Image
Shaw writes as if it were always midday.
Mason Cooley
Image
To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.
Mason Cooley
Image
Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.
Mason Cooley
Image
In love as in art, good technique helps.
Mason Cooley
Image
As a dream comes true, it falls flat.
Mason Cooley
Image
People invent gods to explain their suffering.
Mason Cooley
Image
After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.
Mason Cooley
Image
I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.
Mason Cooley