Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 25

• Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.

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  Patience, Men, Waiting

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• When you feel protective toward your parents, you have become an adult.

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  Parent, Adults, Feels

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• The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.

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  Desire, Extravagance, Excess

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• Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

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  History, Effort, Psychology

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• Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

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  Good Man, Virtue, Manners

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• The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

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  Literature, Shade, Respectability

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• Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?

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  Stars, Astrology

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• Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

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  Happiness, Wisdom, Memories

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• The desire to perform impedes conversation.

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  Desire, Conversation

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• Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.

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  Luck, Bad Luck, Exception

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• The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

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  Riches, Poverty, Poor

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• Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.

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  Seductive, Culture, Popular Culture

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• The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.

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  Lazy, Laziness, Rotation

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• Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.

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  Giving, Way, Misfits

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• I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.

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  Ponds, Frogs, Realistic

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• Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

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  Equality, Hierarchy, Seeming

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• Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.

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  Happy, People, Doe

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• Even boredom has its crises.

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  Funny, Blessing, Boredom

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• Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

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  Literature, Body, Finance

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• Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

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  Sincerity, Willingness

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• Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.

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  Faith, Judgment, Cynicism

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• If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.

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  Knowledge, Labels, World

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• Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.

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  Home, Reality, Comfort

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• Lovers do all the talking and writing. What are the Beloveds thinking?

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  Love, Writing, Thinking

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• Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

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  Truth, Power, Errors

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