Quote

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

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
Repent
Publish
Leisure
Publication
Haste

More quotes by Mason Cooley

Image
To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.
Mason Cooley
Image
Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.
Mason Cooley
Image
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
Mason Cooley
Image
Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
Mason Cooley
Image
My noisy denunciation trails off in doubt.
Mason Cooley
Image
Lovers do all the talking and writing. What are the Beloveds thinking?
Mason Cooley
Image
Metaphors convince at once or not at all.
Mason Cooley
Image
In the theater of confusion, knowing the location of the exits is what counts.
Mason Cooley
Image
People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.
Mason Cooley
Image
Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.
Mason Cooley
Image
Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.
Mason Cooley
Image
The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.
Mason Cooley
Image
Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.
Mason Cooley
Image
Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.
Mason Cooley
Image
Moderation in all things is best, but it's pretty hard to get excited about it.
Mason Cooley
Image
Thought enables us to see Fate coming.
Mason Cooley
Image
Magic lives in curves, not angles.
Mason Cooley
Image
The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.
Mason Cooley
Image
The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.
Mason Cooley
Image
Sometimes Yes is rhetoric enough.
Mason Cooley