Marya Mannes Quotes

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

You cannot know what you cannot feel.

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.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

It is privilege of living to be ... acutely agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

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.

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red.

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

One is as one is and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

To lead means to direct and to exact and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin the generality and God (the Word).