Mason Cooley Doe Quotations

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love.

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

Skepticism does not preserve us from foolhardy deeds.

An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.

To love a fool is a misfortune, but does not make one a fool.

Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.

The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.

Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.

Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

Sexual attraction pairs people, but does not match them.

All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.

Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.

Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.

The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does.

Your need to talk does not create in me a need to listen.

True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.