Quotations From MASON COOLEY

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• 1451.

  To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).
• 1452.

  Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection, New York (1988).
  
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• 1453.

  Alzheimer's usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourteenth Selection, New York (1994).
• 1454.

  Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Second Selection, New York (1985).
  
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• 1455.

  Curiosity makes loneliness.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Seventh Selection, New York (1990).
• 1456.

  Family life may survive as a form of evening and weekend entertainment.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection, New York (1989).
  
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• 1457.

  I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection, New York (1992).
  
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• 1458.

  Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Third Selection, New York (1986).
  
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• 1459.

  Folly always knows the answer.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Thirteenth Selection, New York (1994).
• 1460.

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

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).