Marya Mannes Famous Quotes
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.
"The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit."
"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."
Generosity with strings is not generosity It is a deal.
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes Quotations
"The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other."
Francis Bacon
If you look long enough into the void the void begins to look back through you.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
True friends are like diamonds precious but rare. Fake friends are like fall leaves found everywhere.
Unknown
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
Barbara Tuchman
We are no more than candles burning in the wind.
Japanese Proverb
"Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours."
Swedish Proverb
The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.
Glaser and Way
"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even ... without any hope of doing it well."
Oliver Herford
"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less."
Andr Malraux
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Pablo Picasso