Mason Cooley Quotes
Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.
Cooley, Mason. City Aphorisms. Pascal Press, 1984-1999.
In the programs she is describing, young people make virginity pledges. However when research is done on these programs, it turns out that about half of the youngsters that take the virginity pledges engage in sex within the next 5 years—the same percentage of young people who do not take any pledges or participate in programs to delay premarital sex. However, taking a counterculture approach for what 50 years ago was the mainstream culture shows the extensive cultural change that America has made.
Caesar's wife, Pompeia was rumored to have had an affair. Caesar started divorce proceedings, but in the trial he admitted that he had no evidence whatsoever of her alleged infidelities. He was then asked why he wanted to divorce her:
This is generally true in politics.
Mason Cooley was an American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. One of these such aphorisms Cooley developed was "The time I kill is killing me." He was professor emeritus of French, speech and world literature at the College of Staten Island. He was also an assistant professor of English at Columbia University from 1959 to 1967 and an adjunct professor from 1980 to 1988. He received his B.A. from San Diego State University and his Ph.D. from Oxford.
