Marya Mannes
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.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Future
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.Collection: Chance
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.Collection: Romantic
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.Collection: Intelligence
It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.Collection: Communication
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.Collection: Communication
In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.Collection: Attitude
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.Collection: Intelligence
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.Collection: Able
Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.Collection: Inspirational
A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.Collection: Thinking
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.Collection: Art
Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.Collection: Change
Infants are interesting only to their parents.Collection: Interesting
Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.Collection: Vices
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.Collection: Women
There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.Collection: Solitude
The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.Collection: Communication
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.Collection: Self
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.Collection: Loneliness
certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and ... it's more than a matter of party affiliation. It's a way of thinking and being.Collection: Party
The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.Collection: Lasts
Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?Collection: Husband
Is there no end to this escalation of desire?Collection: Desire
We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our doctrine runs as follows: Our Way is the Only Way.Collection: Running
The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm of love, reticence and sophistication should go hand in hand, for one of the joys of life is discovery. Nowadays, instead of progressing from vous to tu, from Mister to Jim, it's 'darling' and 'come to my place' in the first hour.Collection: Art
People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.Collection: Horse
What is asserted by a man is an opinion; what is asserted by a woman is opinionated. A woman with ideas and the ability to express them is something of a social embarrassment, like an unhousebroken pet.Collection: Men
When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.Collection: Men
television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.Collection: Experts
I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.Collection: Party
the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration and diversity and change. It's impossible to have vision in art or government without risk, or the boldness and courage which produce risk. And this - in spite of what they call modern Republicanism - is the antithesis of true Republican thinking.Collection: Art
The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.Collection: Party
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.Collection: Mother
Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.Collection: Party
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.Collection: Ethics
Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.Collection: Sarcastic
I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.Collection: Men
Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.Collection: Grace
the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.Collection: Team
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.Collection: Art
To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.Collection: Peace