Herbert Mason quote: "He entered the city asked a blind man if he had ever heard the name Enkidu, and the old man shrugged and shook his head, then turned away, as if to say, ‘It is impossible to keep the names of friends whom we have lost"

You have known, O Gilgamesh,
What interests me,
To drink from the Well of Immortality.
HERBERT MASON

I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.
NICK MASON

I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes p...
JACKIE MASON

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or...
JACKIE MASON

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
JACKIE MASON

I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
JACKIE MASON

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person ...
JACKIE MASON

My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.
JACKIE MASON

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny ...
JACKIE MASON

If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
JACKIE MASON

Predictions are preposterous.
JACKIE MASON

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
JACKIE MASON

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like...
JACKIE MASON

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every libera...
GEORGE MASON

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.
MASON COOLEY

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
JACKIE MASON

I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall o...
ANDREW MASON

Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that s...
ANDREW MASON

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a crit...
ANDREW MASON

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
MASON COOLEY

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
MASON COOLEY

Vain is the hope by colouring to display The bright effulgence of the noontide ray Or paint th...
WILLIAM MASON

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful...
GEORGE MASON

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
MASON COOLEY

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of th...
MASON COOLEY

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in ...
JACKIE MASON

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.
MASON COOLEY

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
MASON COOLEY

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.
KEN MASON

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
MASON COOLEY

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
MASON COOLEY

Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved
MASON COOLEY

I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.
MASON COOLEY

Indifference creates an artificial peace.
MASON COOLEY

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.
MASON COOLEY

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in wh...
JACKIE MASON

First thing I killed was no kind of thing at all. It was an enemy soldier. Which is a hell of a lot ...
STEVE MASON

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
JACKIE MASON

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
JACKIE MASON

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union,...
GEORGE MASON

Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?
JACKIE MASON

A blocked path also offers guidance.
MASON COOLEY

One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or busi...
ANDREW MASON

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
MASON COOLEY

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
MASON COOLEY

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
MASON COOLEY

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
MASON COOLEY

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
MASON COOLEY

I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious.
NICK MASON

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
MASON COOLEY

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgrac...
GEORGE MASON

Cure for an obsession: get another one.
MASON COOLEY

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.
GEORGE MASON

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
MASON COOLEY

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
MASON COOLEY

If I wasn't acting, all I'd do is ride my bike. I've always loved doing that.
MASON COOK

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
MASON COOLEY

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
MASON COOLEY

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
MASON COOLEY

I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.
ANDREW MASON

If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.
ANDREW MASON

Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there's something,...
ANDREW MASON

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
MASON COOLEY

And they had restaurant management. Their classes were a lot more specific. And their electives blew...
ASHLEY MASON

The students in the horticulture program really take advantage of it. But the rest of the students d...
ASHLEY MASON

There was no control in the classes.
ASHLEY MASON

I didn't realize it was possible people could be so anonymous. There was no recognition of a person ...
ASHLEY MASON

I really felt anonymous. Everyone was really aloof. It felt claustrophobic.
ASHLEY MASON

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
MASON COOLEY

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.
MASON COOLEY

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - t...
GEORGE MASON

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no ...
GEORGE MASON

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other c...
MASON COOLEY

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

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.
MASON COOLEY

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
MASON COOLEY

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentall...
ANDREW MASON

Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.
MASON COOLEY

It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
JACKIE MASON

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
MASON COOLEY

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
MASON COOLEY

It would seem that the salary range is out of line with what you would expect across the country, an...
BRIAN MASON

I suspect that they want to maybe get in the game before the federal election takes over,
BRIAN MASON

I think there is a consensus that is emerging among industry leaders that we need to end the patchwo...
BRIAN MASON

But people are desperate and there are people, including many of my constituents, who need any kind ...
BRIAN MASON

I'm not happy about it because I think it represents a failure of government to plan,
BRIAN MASON

I think Albertans will feel angry and frustrated because this is our gas,
BRIAN MASON

We own the resource and yet people in other provinces are getting a lower price than Albertans, so t...
BRIAN MASON

People literally are dying on the transplant list who could be cured with this,
BRIAN MASON

That, in my view, will drive up costs in the public health-care system and leave many people behind.
BRIAN MASON

Insurance companies stand to make enormous profits, but they'll do that by skimming off the most ins...
BRIAN MASON

I had a person that worked as a mechanic here and quit his job today because his gas bills were runn...
BOB MASON

He was in the .920s most of the year. That's telling you he's done a pretty good job. But there's on...
BOB MASON

He's got the talent and skills to play at this level.
BOB MASON

It seems to make sense to me that we ought to identify costs and revenues based on the pool of kids ...
BOB MASON

I wouldn't trade this for anything at this point. Just the fun of working with players, kids, everyt...
BILL MASON

I talked to my uncle in Florida on the phone and I told him I wanted to teach. He said to get into i...
BILL MASON

If you go back to cases that are older than 1993, there's a strong likelihood that the statute of li...
BILL MASON

Whatever agreement we come to, if we do come to one, if it doesn't change business as usual in preda...
BILL MASON

Internet crime has become the new wave of crime against children, ... Belmont County Sheriff Fred Th...
BILL MASON

My employees on Baker Boulevard and also Frederick Street will be holding a charity car wash from 9 ...
BILL MASON

Which means we can't prosecute it.
BILL MASON

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.
MASON COOLEY

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
MASON COOLEY

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
MASON COOLEY

When the same man, or set of men, holds the sword and the purse, there is an end of liberty.
GEORGE MASON

[Connecticut] came out and played hard, they were fired up. We came out flat compared to what we wer...
CARRIE MASON

Coming in as a freshman, I wanted to come to a program where I could help build on to it, and I thin...
CARRIE MASON

It's been our goal every year to get to the NCAA tournament, and every year once we've gotten here i...
CARRIE MASON

It's close enough that a lot of them can get to it. It's exciting, (but) personally I can't treat it...
CARRIE MASON

A lot of the same offenses, a lot of cuts, a lot of screens. Great post players, great athletes.
CARRIE MASON

The last tournament, we got off to a slow start, and we got ourselves in a big hole. That was a less...
CARRIE MASON

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
MASON COOLEY

Documents create a paper reality we call proof.
MASON COOLEY

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
MASON COOLEY

I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.
GEORGE MASON

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
MASON COOLEY

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good...
GEORGE MASON

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
MASON COOLEY

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another...
MASON COOLEY

When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
MASON COOLEY

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
MASON COOLEY

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
MASON COOLEY

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
MASON COOLEY

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
MASON COOLEY

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
MASON COOLEY

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
JACKIE MASON

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
JACKIE MASON

The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty.
WILLIAM MASON

The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame
MASON COOLEY

This enhancement to the scoreboard, to the playing surface, and some of the other amenities we'll us...
DAN MASON

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
MASON COOLEY

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
MASON COOLEY

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.
GEORGE MASON

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
MASON COOLEY

On first glance, one could argue that all three of these paintings are all alike. The palette is alm...
WALLY MASON

If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It...
ANDREW MASON

The beloved is the ultimate fetish.
MASON COOLEY

Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.
MASON COOLEY

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calcula...
GEORGE MASON

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
MASON COOLEY

[These shows help children to deal with the trauma of war and the resulting psychological stress.] W...
DAVID MASON

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
MASON COOLEY

Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.
MASON COOLEY

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners
MASON COOLEY

Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence
MASON COOLEY

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind
MASON COOLEY

magic lives in curves, not angles
MASON COOLEY

There are so many ingredients that are contained in 'The Wall' that were not necessarily con...
NICK MASON

I think personally the bill was misguided from the start.
DYANA MASON

I think the fact that questions weren't even raised shows this bill was misguided from the start.
DYANA MASON

Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma
MASON COOLEY

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
MASON COOLEY

We made a significant investment. The character of the area is residential, and we want to keep it t...
BILL MASON

I've never whipped anyone before. This is my first Fetish Ball and I am having a great time.
BILL MASON

A primary responsibility I have is being the person who speaks for the victim.
BILL MASON

We didn't used to be in the storm business, but the last two years, it's been one storm after anothe...
BILL MASON

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of...
GEORGE MASON

Just because a bridge has structural deficiencies doesn't mean it's unsafe. It merely means it's det...
RICK MASON

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
GEORGE MASON

The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.
MASON COOLEY

Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.
MASON COOLEY

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
MASON COOLEY

You can grow with grace. This is a type of smart growth. Basically we just want to stop sprawling Ut...
DANNY MASON

Our linebackers are strong, just terrific. Martin is one of the best middle linebackers around. He h...
MIKE MASON

Frankly, I'm in shock. I just can't believe it...even though I had every reason to expect it.
JACKIE MASON

The nervousness never lasted more than a second because he was so congenial and comfortable. He made...
JACKIE MASON

Losing a guy like that ? it's tough. He's a potential most valuable player in the league if he's hea...
CHRIS MASON

The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.
MASON COOLEY

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
MASON COOLEY

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.
MASON COOLEY

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
MASON COOLEY

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.
MASON COOLEY

The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
MASON COOLEY

I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.
MASON COOLEY

We're not going to go on a wild goose chase.
MIKE MASON

A (Harris Poll) survey showed that two-thirds of the American people don't know all the words to our...
VANESSA MASON

We did a recent survey that found that two out of three Americans don't know the words to the nation...
VANESSA MASON

His flicking is up there with the best. He is flicking for Australia when he gets in the team. To be...
SIMON MASON

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
MASON COOLEY

Their numbers on medical costs were astronomical. It's a bad contract all around.
ANDY MASON

It will feel less dense because of all the open space. It saves the taxpayers a fortune - we're talk...
DANNY MASON

I want to play well in front of the fans. They've just seen this guy with the bald head on the end o...
CHRIS MASON

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
MASON COOLEY

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
MASON COOLEY

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
GEORGE MASON

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
MASON COOLEY

We remain totally focused on getting our near term production projects on line quickly.
ANTHONY MASON

We are disappointed with the result of Emery Hudson,
ANTHONY MASON

Does that make her less iconic?
ANTHONY MASON

You're saying Mattel and Barbie are copying you?
ANTHONY MASON

So you're 10 times as big as you were four years ago?
ANTHONY MASON

I'm very excited about this and I can tell I'm going to be spending a lot of my time here, ... I thi...
ANTHONY MASON

I was a little nervous at first, but once the game got going and I started sweating, I started feeli...
CHRIS MASON

The situation will stabilize very soon as by Wednesday evening all the filling stations will have en...
DAN MASON

Switch every 30 minutes. I sometimes put a rock or something to show where I am quitting the weeding...
SANDRA MASON

The popularity of Groupon has almost rendered the group-buying element of it obsolete, because we...
ANDREW MASON

There is a lack of representation from this side of the Monterey Bay -- Seaside, Marina, Sand City, ...
MEL MASON

I don't expect anything in return. I have been giving for years. I was giving to Shirley before she ...
WAYNE MASON

We said that ordinance was improperly and illegally enacted. I killed that horse 10 times over in th...
STEVE MASON

He entered the city asked a blind man if he had ever heard the name Enkidu, and the old man shrugged and shook his head, then turned away, as if to say, ‘It is impossible to keep the names of friends whom we have lost

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