Author: Marya Mannes

Quotes

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

- Marya Mannes

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

- Marya Mannes

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

- Marya Mannes

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

- Marya Mannes

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

- Marya Mannes

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

- Marya Mannes

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

- Marya Mannes

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

- Marya Mannes

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

- Marya Mannes

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