Mason Cooley Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

  Mason Cooley

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

• Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

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  Disappointment, Reality, Names

  "City Aphorisms: Ninth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1992.

• Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.

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  Memories, Giving, Literature

• Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

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  Giving, Excess, Pleasure

• Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.

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  Order, Giving, Comfort

• Money gives me more energy than all the Granola bars in the world.

  Mason Cooley

  Money, Giving, Energy

• Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

  Mason Cooley

  Giving, Luck, Method

• The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.

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  Happiness, Giving, Together

• Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.

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  Giving, Doubt, Age

• Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.

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  Giving, Existence, Begging

• A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.

  Mason Cooley

  Museums, History, Giving

• Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Giving, Realization

• Methodology gives those with no ideas something to do.

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  Ideas, Giving, Methodology

• Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

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  Giving Up, Literature, Wit

• Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.

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  Law, Common Sense, Giving

• The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.

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  Dream, Lying, Reality

• Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

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  Giving, Vices, Literature

• Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.

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  Kings, Equality, Giving

• Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.

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  Giving, Way, Misfits

• Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

  Mason Cooley

  Reading, Giving, Places To Go

• The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport.

  Mason Cooley

  Sports, Giving Up, Winning

• A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.

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  Giving, Illusion, Enjoy

• At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

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  Giving, Aging, Vistas

• Facts do not give advice.

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  Giving, Advice, Facts

• Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.

  Mason Cooley

  Giving, Admiration, Narcissism

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