Mason Cooley Quotes

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.

Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.

I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

I say never trust a man who combs his hair so as to cover his shiny dome and then flaunts a wife young enough to be his daughter. Oh, Trump has issues all right.

How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been two hundred years at it. It's superb.

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.

Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.

Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.

Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could find more girls who would choose me for a husband than can carry any of the young men.

Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity , then of our wisdom , ultimately of our coercion.