Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

- Marya Mannes

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

- 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.

- Marya Mannes

A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.

- Marya Mannes

Infants are interesting only to their parents.

- Marya Mannes

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 go…

- Marya Mannes

Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.

- Marya Mannes

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

- 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 whi…

- Marya Mannes