“The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.”
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Famous Mason Cooley Quotes
“If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.”
“Sometimes the only way to become grounded is to hit bottom.”
“I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.”
“Politics inflame the passions in a way that few beloveds can match.”
“God may be a human creation, but He goes His way, not ours.”
“Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.”
“Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.”
“Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.”
“My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.”
“People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.”
“The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.”
“Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.”
“The family is on its way out; couples go next; then no more keeping cats or parrots.”
“Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.”
“Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way.”
“Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.”
“Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.”
“Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.”