Quotes by Aphorists

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Mason Cooley
If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully
Mason Cooley
Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.
Mason Cooley
He had a clear conscience. Never used it.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
Mason Cooley
Rereading, we find a new book
Mason Cooley
Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are
Mason Cooley
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
Mason Cooley
He who limps is still walking.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.
Mason Cooley
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
Stanislaw Lec
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Why not is a slogan for an interesting life.
Mason Cooley
Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.
Mason Cooley
Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others but only widen it.
Mason Cooley
An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.
Mason Cooley
Faith moves mountains but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Mason Cooley
Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.
Mason Cooley
Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.
Mason Cooley
Dogs often remind us of the human ail-too human. Cats never.
Mason Cooley
At the end of every diet the path curves back toward the trough.
Mason Cooley
Magic lives in curves not angles.
Mason Cooley
The real secrets are not the ones I tell.
Mason Cooley
Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?
Mason Cooley
Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.
Mason Cooley
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are
Mason Cooley
With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.
Mason Cooley
Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
Mason Cooley
Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Cure for an obsession: get another one.
Mason Cooley