Mason Cooley Quotes
Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.
Cooley, Mason. The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations. Edited by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, 1993.
This is one of the rare proverbs dealing with the importance of intelligence and foreknowledge.
See Lord Salisbury for an earlier, jaundiced view of experts.
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.