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

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

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

- 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

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

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

- 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

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

- Marya Mannes

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