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Famous Mason Cooley Quotes
“The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.”
“The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.”
“The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure.”
“The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.”
“If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.”
“The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.”
“Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.”
“Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.”
“Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.”