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Famous Mason Cooley Quotes
“People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.”
“Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives!”
“When I am bored with myself, I try to find someone to listen to me.”
“Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.”
“Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.”
“Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.”
“Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.”
“I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.”
“As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.”
“Beware of wallflowers. They expect to have everything done for them.”
“Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.”
“Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.”
“Lovers' quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are.”
“Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.”
“Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.”
“Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted.”
“The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.”
“An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.”