Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.
MASON COOLEY Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
MASON COOLEY Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
MASON COOLEY 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 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 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 A blocked path also offers guidance.
MASON COOLEY 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 The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
MASON COOLEY Cure for an obsession: get another one.
MASON COOLEY Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
MASON COOLEY Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
MASON COOLEY 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 Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
MASON COOLEY 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 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 Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.
MASON COOLEY Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
MASON COOLEY Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
MASON COOLEY 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 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 Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
MASON COOLEY 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 The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame
MASON COOLEY 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 My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
MASON COOLEY The beloved is the ultimate fetish.
MASON COOLEY Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.
MASON COOLEY In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
MASON COOLEY 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 Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma
MASON COOLEY 'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
MASON COOLEY 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 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 It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
MASON COOLEY Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
MASON COOLEY Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
MASON COOLEY The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
MASON COOLEY Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
MASON COOLEY Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
MASON COOLEY Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
MASON COOLEY Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
MASON COOLEY In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
MASON COOLEY Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?
MASON COOLEY Rereading, we find a new book.
MASON COOLEY Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
MASON COOLEY Regret for wasted time is more wasted time
MASON COOLEY Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over a...
MASON COOLEY Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine h...
MASON COOLEY Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
MASON COOLEY Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
MASON COOLEY Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.
MASON COOLEY Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
MASON COOLEY Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
MASON COOLEY When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.
MASON COOLEY An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
MASON COOLEY General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
MASON COOLEY Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
MASON COOLEY Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.
MASON COOLEY Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
MASON COOLEY Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
MASON COOLEY Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
MASON COOLEY The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
MASON COOLEY Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
MASON COOLEY Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.
MASON COOLEY Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.
MASON COOLEY In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
MASON COOLEY Never try to leap from a standstill.
MASON COOLEY Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
MASON COOLEY Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New ...
MASON COOLEY Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.
MASON COOLEY Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
MASON COOLEY It's tough to get a really cheap Mac. It's easy to get a really cheap Windows machine.
BRIAN COOLEY We're trying to fill that void that exists in Rancho Cordova.
BRIAN COOLEY By winning a CNET Best of CES Award, Samsung's HL-S5679W sets a standard within their sector for oth...
BRIAN COOLEY By winning three CNET Best of CES Awards, Pioneer has set a standard within their respective sectors...
BRIAN COOLEY When I was younger, I was shy. I was overweight. I wore glasses. I got teased a lot, I grew up watch...
CHELSEA COOLEY They just don't make sense for (small investors). They'll get eaten up by the commissions.
SCOTT COOLEY I think there is an increasing recognition at Fidelity that fund size can really harm performance. I...
SCOTT COOLEY You know I have not seen people doing back flips about the fact that he's mountain biking. But I thi...
MIKE COOLEY The public has expressed legitimate concerns about [the law's] use against those who commit new, non...
STEVE COOLEY Brooks attacked him with a weapon that clearly could have crushed his skull. He did that in the midd...
CRAIG COOLEY [And after coming on strong late last season, expectations have risen: The Redskins have made Cooley...
CHRIS COOLEY It's just tough, especially since it's the first week,
CHRIS COOLEY A lot of big plays happened when things broke down, ... The linemen picked up their blocks and guys ...
CHRIS COOLEY Mark's always good for something like that,
CHRIS COOLEY I can play a great game and have three bad plays and I'm going to go home and think about those thre...
CHRIS COOLEY It's just a matter of what gets called, that's as far as it goes, ... Whatever gets called is what w...
CHRIS COOLEY We knew it would take at least a year to build the kennel. We're getting close but we're not there y...
RODNEY COOLEY Those subtle differences (in returns of index funds) make a big difference over the long term.
SCOTT COOLEY Any time you let a stock run up to 40 percent of your portfolio, you have to have a lot of convictio...
SCOTT COOLEY I would be [angry] right now. Personally, if I played and got ready all offseason and in one game [w...
CHRIS COOLEY He (King) was throwing up a lot Friday night, so I made the decision to sit him out for a match on S...
DON COOLEY I told coach Mayer before wrestling started that this could be the day that he finally gets taken do...
DON COOLEY He's not real flashy, but very methodical. He doesn't get out of position. It's the same style you s...
DON COOLEY To win a Brooke title is quite a task, and he did it with relative ease. Dave has faced a lot of kid...
DON COOLEY Dave hasn't been taken down all season. That's quite an accomplishment.
DON COOLEY We have gotten a lot better as the season wears on. We probably won't win the WPIAL, but we could pr...
DON COOLEY I wasn't really sure what to expect coming into the season. I knew David had talent, but I certainly...
DON COOLEY Pete has come on very strong lately. He's finally figured out how to wrestle instead of just brawlin...
DON COOLEY Dave is very good defensively on his feet.
DON COOLEY It's all about family orientation. It means the team comes first.
DON COOLEY Pretty much everything eats, scavenges or parasitizes the caribou. A big chunk of the northern ecosy...
DOROTHY COOLEY I greatly admire his skills. He is, in my opinion, the consummate trial attorney. He has the best co...
CRAIG COOLEY All three are pay sheet dogs and have made a difference in the kennel. They are steady, consistent, ...
RODNEY COOLEY We walked off the field in Dallas and it was the greatest game ever,
CHRIS COOLEY He's very young. He is, frankly, in terms of maturity, probably about two years behind his age.
CRAIG COOLEY We want to establish an identity and set a foundation for how we want to play.
ED COOLEY It's sad, really, really sad. Practice was very somber. Everyone is really bothered by it.
ED COOLEY Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the f...
DENTON COOLEY You can't put a price on that. That's work that's irreplaceable. There's certainly a personal and em...
JEFF COOLEY There are short lists of two- or three-letter words that most people don't use. People probably have...
JEFF COOLEY I typically just try to break them into the concept of club Scrabble as opposed to family Scrabble.
JEFF COOLEY Things have just gone exceedingly well. We could not be more pleased with the results.
JEFF COOLEY If she gets on top early she's tough.
RODNEY COOLEY 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 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 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 By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in ...
JACKIE MASON I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.
KEN MASON 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 One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or busi...
ANDREW MASON I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious.
NICK MASON The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgrac...
GEORGE MASON We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.
GEORGE MASON If I wasn't acting, all I'd do is ride my bike. I've always loved doing that.
MASON COOK 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 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 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 I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentall...
ANDREW MASON It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
JACKIE MASON