top of page
"Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Money quotes

"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."

"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."

"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."

"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."

"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."
Explore more quotes by 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 which talk is the more boring."

"Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them."

"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."

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

"All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."

"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."
bottom of page