Mason Cooley Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.

  Mason Cooley

  Married, Rich, Pleasure

• Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.

  Mason Cooley

  Work, Melancholy, Pleasure

• Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

  Mason Cooley

  Pain, Consciousness, Pleasure

• The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.

  Mason Cooley

  Money, Perfect, Pleasure

• If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Trying, Pity

• Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

  Mason Cooley

  Vacation, Pleasure, Prove

• The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

  Mason Cooley

  Life, Boredom, Resentment

• The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

  Mason Cooley

  Acting, Actors, Pleasure

• Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

  Mason Cooley

  Mind, Literature, Body

• The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure.

  Mason Cooley

  Overcoming, Pleasure, Limitation

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

  Mason Cooley

  Giving, Excess, Pleasure

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

  Mason Cooley

  Giving, Vices, Literature

• I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.

  Mason Cooley

  Misery, Pleasure

• The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.

  Mason Cooley

  Philosophy, Writing, Mean

• Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.

  Mason Cooley

  Pleasure, Spoilers

  "City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, New York, 1987.

• I pursue pleasure, but stingily, suspiciously.

  Mason Cooley

  Pleasure, Pursue

• Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.

  Mason Cooley

  Secret, Pleasure, Masturbation

• Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.

  Mason Cooley

  Happiness, Pleasure

• Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

  Mason Cooley

  Gone, Pleasure, Sour

• Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.

  Mason Cooley

  Addiction, Pleasure, Vengeful

• I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.

  Mason Cooley

  Work, Pleasure

• The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

  Mason Cooley

  Puritan, Pleasure, Duty

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