Marya Mannes - Money Quotes

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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.

Marya Mannes

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

Marya Mannes

On Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

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All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice — quite literally — of the man in the street.

Marya Mannes

How many wives does your husband have?
My husband, he has three:
One at the office, one in dreams
And me.
How many wives does your husband have?
My husband, he has two:
The imagined woman he married and The true.
How many wives does your husband have?
My husband, he has none:
He's wed to money. That makes less
Than one.

Marya Mannes

In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.

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