Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves. Marya Mannes More Quotes by Marya Mannes More Quotes From 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. Marya Mannes environmental abuse revenge Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it. Marya Mannes dignity able life-is 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 our-society inspirational reality 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. Marya Mannes effort maturity art 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. Marya Mannes doctrine running world All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. Marya Mannes seduction women lovers It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere. Marya Mannes sincere sound Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them. Marya Mannes accused honest way People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are. Marya Mannes horse car people The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. Marya Mannes age-and-youth effort art The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so. Marya Mannes leaks Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow. Marya Mannes down-and nature lying 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 chance may two Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being. Marya Mannes miracle heart men Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had. Marya Mannes progress change fear Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal. Marya Mannes strings generosity inspirational 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. Marya Mannes being-alone space loneliness The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other. Marya Mannes communication political people 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. Marya Mannes intellectual mind men Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave. Marya Mannes humanity self may
