Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 6

• Never trust the judgment of an enthusiastic man; never trust the promises of a lazy one.

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  Trust, Men, Lazy

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• The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

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  Laughter, Literature, Sometimes

  "City Aphorisms: Sixth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1989.

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

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  Puritan, Pleasure, Duty

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• Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

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  Overcoming, Doe, Flattery

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• Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

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  Truth, Lying, Silent

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• Swindlers are notoriously gullible.

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  Gullible, Swindlers, Gullibility

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• Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.

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  Vanity, Spiteful, Hungry

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• Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

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  Stupidity, Facts, Facts Of Life

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• Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.

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  Secret, Live By, Dies

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• Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want to bring along two or three friends; drunks; monologists; those who stay until three o'clock in the morning; those who think that conversation means having an argument; those who take a high moral tone; those who are stupid, ugly, or dull. Enforcement of these rules will enable one to eat alone every night in comfort.

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  Morning, Stupid, Mean

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• Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.

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  Courage, Self, Doubt

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• The parade was here, but it disappeared around a corner.

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  Action, Parades, Corners

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• Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.

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  Culture, Form, Expensive

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• The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

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  Self, People, Literature

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• You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine.

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  Happiness, Thinking, Miserable

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• Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

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  Garden, Snakes, Paradise

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• Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.

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  People, Consistency, Suffering

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• An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.

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  Lying, Reason, No Reason

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• Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

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  Ideas, May, Cows

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• Faith no doubt moves mountains, but not necessarily to where we want them.

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  Faith, Moving, Doubt

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• Necessity makes heroes of us all.

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  Hero

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• Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.

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  Love, Sports, Fall

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• Many think that assigning blame settles matters.

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  Thinking, Guilt, Matter

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• My nostalgia is for the impossible.

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  Impossible, Nostalgia

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• Listen to what people say about themselves; they will tell you everything you need to know.

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  People, Needs, Knows

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