Mason Cooley Giving Quotations

The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.

Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.

Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.

A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.

Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.

Facts do not give advice.

Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.

Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.

Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.

Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.

Money gives me more energy than all the Granola bars in the world.

Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.

At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.

Methodology gives those with no ideas something to do.

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.