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Marya Mannes
American
Journalist
About the author
It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
Marya Mannes,
American
Journalist
#Sound
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes,
American
Journalist
#Road
#Lovers
#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,
American
Journalist
#Youth
#Age
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,
American
Journalist
#Chance
#May
#Americans
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.
Marya Mannes,
American
Journalist
#Power
#Idea
#Society
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,
American
Journalist
#Talk
#American
#Men
#Money
#Women
#Gain
#Weight
#Loss
In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.
Marya Mannes,
American
Journalist
#Attitude
#Gratitude
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,
American
Journalist
#People
#Communication
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
Marya Mannes,
American
Journalist
#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,
American
Journalist
#Eye
#May
#Money
#Desire
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Marya Mannes,
American
Journalist
#End
#Dreams
#Reality
#Expectation
#Greed
#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,
American
Journalist
#Will
#End
#Earth
#Living
#Future
#Revenge
#Abuse
The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
Marya Mannes,
American
Journalist
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes,
American
Journalist
#People
#Ability
#Reason
#Emotions
#Control
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
Marya Mannes,
American
Journalist
#Successful
#Talent
#Arrogance
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
Marya Mannes,
American
Journalist
#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,
American
Journalist
#Society
#Reality
#Intelligence
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes,
American
Journalist
#Road
#Lovers
#Seduction