MARYA MANNES

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

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.

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.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

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

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

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.

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.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

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.

People are dumb, People are dumb, Promise ‘em peace and kingdom come. / People are dopes, People are dopes, Play on their peeves, play on their hopes. / Make ‘em feel mad, Make ‘em feel mad, Everything’s lousy, everything’s bad. / Make ‘em afraid, Make ‘em afraid, Show ‘em they’re dupes, tricked and betrayed. / Then if they bite, Then if they bite, You will have fools to fight your fight.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

Hail to BBD&O It told the nation how to go It managed by advertisement To sell us a new President. EISENHOWER HITS THE SPOT ONE FULL GENERAL, THAT’S A LOT ., FEELING SLUGGISH, FEELING SICK? TAKE A DOSE OF IKE AND DICK. PHILIP MORRIS, LUCKY STRIKE, ALKA-SELTZER, I LIKE IKE

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

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.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.