Bertha Mason Quotes

I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said. ~ Jean Rhys

A Short Southern Screw? So I was right. You're craving something south ot the Mason-Dixon Line."
He moved closer, crowding her even though there was still a good twelve inches between them.
"I can assure you, though, I'm a man who isn't short in any sense of the word. ~ Katee Robert

No matter what, baby, we are in this together from here on out. ~ Alex Morgan

You are a human being now, not like them [the animals]. ~ Herbert Mason

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life. ~ Mason Cooley

All that is left to one who grieves
Is convalescence. No change of heart or spiritual
Conversion, for the heart has changed
And the soul has been converted
To a thing that sees
How much it costs to lose a friend it loved. ~ Herbert Mason

Cynicism has its own zealots. ~ Mason Cooley

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art. ~ Mason Cooley

Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want to bring along two or three friends; drunks; monologists; those who stay until three o'clock in the morning; those who think that conversation means having an argument; those who take a high moral tone; those who are stupid, ugly, or dull. Enforcement of these rules will enable one to eat alone every night in comfort. ~ Mason Cooley

Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment. ~ Mason Cooley

Prostitutes go to jail. Their customers go home and read the New York Times. In this country you're allowed to buy anything. If you need a shirt, you have a right to buy it. If you need sex, you don't. What's more important, sex or a shirt? ~ Jackie Mason

The old myth of unlimited growth alienates human beings from nature. To live sustainably we must respect nature and live by its rules. We must walk softly, leaving as small a footprint as possible. ~ Linda Mason Hunter

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree. ~ Mason Cooley

Nice to feel you. ~ Bella Jeanisse

When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens. ~ Mason Cooley

Whenever I want to stop myself being too Marxist about the future, I think about Shakespeare. ~ Paul Mason

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing. ~ Mason Cooley

Children should transcribe favourite passages.
A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose for transcription their favorite verse in one poem or another ... But a book of their own, made up of their own chosen verses, should give them pleasure. ~ Charlotte Mason

Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost. ~ Mason Cooley

A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous. ~ Mason Cooley

All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others. ~ George Mason

He moved forward, and they switched positions, with me still squished in the middle like the jelly in a peanut butter sandwich. The guys were the peanut butter, of course, because they had the nuts. ~ Ava Mason

The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around. ~ Mason Cooley

I-I'm not making advances," she told him as she flattened herself against his chest. "You're just an available s-source of heat." "So you say," St. Vincent replied lazily, tucking the quilt more tightly around them both. "However, during the past quarter hour you've been fondling parts of my anatomy that no one's ever dared to touch before." "I v-very much doubt that." She burrowed even further into the depths of his coat, and added in a muffled voice, "You've probably been h-handled more than a hamper at Fortnum and Mason. ~ Lisa Kleypas

The cow's point of view deserves more literary attention. ~ Mason Cooley

No disaster can stay shiny and new forever. No worry has ever been invented that the mind cannot bully down into mere background noise. ~ Jamie Mason

I think under the right set of circumstances," Mason said, carefully, his eyes not leaving mine, "pretty much anyone is capable of horrific behavior. ~ Amy Hatvany

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them. ~ Mason Cooley

I have heard from many readers since 'The Girl in the Blue Beret' came out. The story of my airline pilot, former B-17 bomber pilot Marshall Stone, on his search to find the people who helped him during World War II has struck a chord. ~ Bobbie Ann Mason

I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not. ~ Mason Cooley

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little. ~ Mason Cooley

Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing. ~ Mason Cooley

Sex is not imaginary, but it is not quite real either. ~ Mason Cooley