Top 100 Mason Quotes
#1. Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.
Mason Cooley
#2. Does 'submissive' mean 'baby' in your language, Master Mason? Because I'll have you know
...
No, but Dominant does mean lover, caretaker, disciplinarian, and whatever else the situation warrants.
Bianca Sommerland
#3. I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.
George Mason
#4. Churchill often reflected on this near-death episode and the effect of chance. 'You may walk to the right or to the left of a particular tree, and it makes the difference whether you rise to command an Army Corps or are sent home crippled or paralysed for life.
Phil Mason
#5. You know teenage boys, you own one-Mason Lerner
Natasha Larry
#6. Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.
Andrew Mason
#7. Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
George Mason
#8. Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.
Mason Cooley
#9. Because of this ever increasing discernment of the true Mason he/she will find more efficient ways to apply brotherly love, relief and truth.
George Washington
#10. Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.
Mason Cooley
#11. I win on my merits; my opponents win by cheating.
Mason Cooley
#12. Chance could share shit like that with his brother. Chance shared everything with his brother. To him, Quinn was some sort of superhero who occasionally got knee-walking drunk, told great stories, could crack a joke, and pissed him off from time to time.
Alex Morgan
#13. Mason. Darling. Do I have to flutter my eyelashes all morning to get you to pass the teapot down this way or am I going to have to offer you a blow job? Some of us are dehydrating over here.
Rolf And Ranger
#14. It's not a query of staying wholesome. It's a query of discovering a illness you want.
Jackie Mason
#15. Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.
Mason Cooley
#17. The eros of advertising is lurid but not specific.
Mason Cooley
#18. God, You direct my steps. Although the path may lead me through dark valleys or appear to take unnecessary detours, I believe that one day I will look back and discover that your way was perfect. I put my future in your hands.
Amy E. Mason
#19. Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.
Mason Cooley
#20. In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.
Mason Cooley
#21. to sustain these true moments of insight one has to be highly disciplined, lead a disciplined life,
Mason Currey
#22. If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.
Mason Cooley
#23. Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.
Mason Cooley
#24. Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.
Mason Cooley
#25. I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know you'll always be with us.
Anthony Mason
#26. Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.
Mason Cooley
#27. Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.
Mason Cooley
#28. Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.
Mason Cooley
#29. After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.
Mason Cooley
#30. Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.
Charlotte M. Mason
#31. When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened.
Mason Cooley
#32. The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.
Mason Cooley
#33. The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.
Mason Cooley
#34. When love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend.
Mason Cooley
#35. Mason sees me and smiles as bright as the first star on the horizon.
Sarah Tregay
#36. Remember that the devil is the one who tells you to play a tune that's not your own, and you can drive him right on out into the cold by playing what's in your soul.
Jennifer Mason-Black
#37. 'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
Mason Cooley
#38. The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.
Mason Cooley
#39. A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.
Mason Cooley
#42. Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.
Mason Cooley
#43. Once discover comfort, and there is no turning back.
Mason Cooley
#44. Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.
Mason Cooley
#45. If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
Andrew Mason
#46. Rule of science: only exclude purpose, and Nature will reveal her causes.
Mason Cooley
#47. I'm weird. But I'm a pretty serious person.
Andrew Mason
#48. I like creating something from nothing and hearing it on the radio or on stage or from somebody driving down the street singing it. It's like building a house, taking a vacant piece of land, and next thing you know, there's a house with somebody living in it.
Harvey Mason Jr.
#49. No one could be the way I remember my father.
Mason Cooley
#50. We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.
Dave Mason
#51. Don't ever say that, Fennrys," she said. "I don't ever want to hear you say that you don't deserve or you aren't worthy. You do. You are.
Lesley Livingston
#52. Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.
Mason Cooley
#53. It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like.
Andrew Mason
#54. If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.
Mason Cooley
#55. I want to give you back your first kiss, the one that jerk stole from
you. And I want it to be something that even a coma can't make you
forget.
Shelly Crane
#56. Somehow the body keeps life going despite the ravaging negations of the mind.
Mason Cooley
#57. Morning, ma'am. I'm looking for Tommy Mason. Is he around?" Polite and professional, that was Senior Agent Broussard.
"Lord, what's that no-good sonofabitch done now? Wait, you ain't a cop; you're a game warden. "What'd he do, run over a fish?
Susannah Sandlin
#59. I think that people can get caught up in the "gee-whiz" technology of surveying, which is constantly changing, and forget about the legal aspects and the professional responsibility that surveyors bear - something that hasn't changed much at all in hundreds of years.
Mark Mason
#60. Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.
Mason Cooley
#61. Rage against the world, if you like, but quietly, or the Guardians will awake.
Mason Cooley
#62. Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.
Mark Mason
#63. There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there's only you and me, and we just disagree.
Dave Mason
#64. No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.
Mason Cooley
#65. Falling seemed to take forever as the water slowly rose to meet me. The dome of city hall continued to gleam in the distance, with its golden reflection extending to the river water. Strange that I hadn't seen that before.
Patricia Mason
#66. The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.
Mason Cooley
#67. While I have the utmost respect for people who practice the Christian faith, the fact is, as everyone knows, I am as Jewish as a matzo ball or kosher salami.
Jackie Mason
#68. Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.
Mason Cooley
#69. When I was in high school in St. Louis my best friend was Marsha Mason. Marsha was a year ahead of me.
Mary Frann
#70. He took a deep breath. I don't know what I'm supposed to do here. I don't know if I'm supposed to distract you. If I'm supposed to make you laugh, or if I'm supposed to be reassuring you. I have no idea what to do, so all I'm doing is just being here.
Tijan
#71. Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.
Charlotte Mason
#72. Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.
Mason Cooley
#73. They love you for the same reasons they don't love anyone else.
Tijan
#76. Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.
Mason Cooley
#78. Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious.
Mason Cooley
#79. The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.
Mason Cooley
#80. Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.
Mason Cooley
#82. Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.
John Mason Brown
#83. The second issue, which was a big one, her hands shook like she had DTs. I was tempted to go to the liquor store and get her a bottle of Jack to calm her down. The rest of her body was completely still except at the wrists. Strangest thing I'd ever seen.
Vibrators for hands.
Ashlan Thomas
#84. Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.
Mason Cooley
#85. Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?
Jackie Mason
#86. A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.
Mason Cooley
#87. Listen, I know everything you're saying is true. Ellie does need a good man. She needs someone steady. Someone who can offer her a life full of love and security.Unfortunately, she wants me.
- Mason
Kathy Love
#88. The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.
Mason Cooley
#89. Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you?
No.
Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it.
S.E. Hinton
#90. All men are by nature born equally free and independent.
George Mason
#91. Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours!
Charlotte Mason
#92. When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.
Mason Cooley
#93. I've got a friend who is half-Jewish and half-Italian. If he can't buy it wholesale, he steals it!
Jackie Mason
#94. While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
John Landis Mason
#95. The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
Mason Cooley
#97. In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.
Mason Cooley
#98. He often said that he wished that he could be a stone mason like me. He said a stone mason would have time and peace in which to think things out. I did not tell him that a stone mason thinks of little but stones and mortar.
Kurt Vonnegut
#100. Every work of art changes its predecessors.
Mason Cooley
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