At retirement, switching from “I must” to “I want” leaves me puzzled and uneasy.
Mason Cooley
- Life
- 1927-2002
- Occupation
- aphorist
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At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).
Mason Cooley
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Mason Cooley
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Mason Cooley
In retirement, I look for days off from my days off.
Mason Cooley
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Mason Cooley
Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.
Mason Cooley
Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.
Mason Cooley
Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth.
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Mason Cooley
"Revenge," I shrieked, groping to remember the affront. City Aphorisms, New York (1984)
Mason Cooley
Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.
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