Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.
Mason Cooley
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Sharpens
Abstinence
Appetite
Denial
Others
More quotes by Mason Cooley
Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.
Mason Cooley
Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.
Mason Cooley
The rich feel full of merit.
Mason Cooley
Lovers remain in the dark, working hard to keep out daylight.
Mason Cooley
Attachments and bereavements are inseparable.
Mason Cooley
When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.
Mason Cooley
The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.
Mason Cooley
Lovers never want to say I love you at the same moment. Hence all the love stories.
Mason Cooley
Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.
Mason Cooley
A blocked path also offers guidance.
Mason Cooley
Self-esteem is not based on itself.
Mason Cooley
Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.
Mason Cooley
As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.
Mason Cooley
Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.
Mason Cooley
People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.
Mason Cooley
With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.
Mason Cooley
Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.
Mason Cooley
In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last.
Mason Cooley
Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.
Mason Cooley
Drunks conjure an endless drama from their bottles.
Mason Cooley