Marya Mannes Quotes
"All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."
- Marya Mannes
(Related: Lovers, Road, Seduction)
"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
(Related: Age, Youth)
"For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves."
- Marya Mannes
(Related: Americans, Chance, May)
"I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society."
- Marya Mannes
(Related: Power, Society, Idea)
"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
(Related: Men, Women, Money, American, Gain, Loss, Talk, Weight)
"In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude."
- Marya Mannes
(Related: Gratitude, Attitude)
"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
(Related: People, Communication)
"Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so."
- Marya Mannes
(Related: Lie)
"Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier."
- Marya Mannes
(Related: Money, Desire, Eye, May)
"The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality."
- Marya Mannes
(Related: Dreams, End, Expectation, Greed, Reality, Romantic)
"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
(Related: Abuse, Earth, End, Future, Living, Revenge, Will)
"The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so."
- Marya Mannes
"The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason."
- Marya Mannes
(Related: People, Control, Ability, Emotions, Reason)
"Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent."
- Marya Mannes
(Related: Talent, Successful, Arrogance)
"Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them."
- Marya Mannes
(Related: Women)
"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
(Related: Intelligence, Society, Reality)
"All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."
- Marya Mannes
(Related: Lovers, Road, Seduction)