Top 1200 Single Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can't move.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.

Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every single, you know, ideology, we have every single background. However, when it comes to the screen, we have one code of ethics and one code of conduct.

When married, you're a 1 woman man, when single, you're a 1 woman man! Live like she's out there and stop goofin round with girls you have no future with! Don't waste your singleness. Use this season to know God more deeply, serve others, be generous with your time, $$$ & talents. Be satisfied in Him!

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

A woman says to a man, "I haven't seen you around here." "Yes, I just got out of jail for killing my wife." "So you're single!"

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.

A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.

Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family.

Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

I used to play against a high school football team that always used to run the single wing. And eventually, other teams figured out that they ran the single wing. And so they prepared for it. The Democrats are stuck running the single wing.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

I'm a Black man who was raised by a single mother in a housing project. That story doesn't usually end in Congress.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.

A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.

He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony. Imagine a world without such souls. Yes, it should have been harder to do.

When you watch a tea ceremony, every single movement, every single gesture is very calculated. It's very precise, and it's all protocol. It's all a part of the system. And it's almost like they've sacrificed every single thing to make that perfect. It's like their craft.

It doesn't take the most powerful nations on Earth to create the next global conflict. Just the will of a single man.

It is not a slight thing, gentlemen, to force a man to say what he is, or what he believes himself to be; for that supreme word of man, that single expression which he utters of and upon himself is decisive. It lays down the basis upon which all judgment of him is to be formed. From that moment all the acts of his life must correspond to the answer given by him.

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

I have never, ever, as God is my witness, contrived a single debate in a single show.

The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.

Convoy? Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single vehicle.

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats.

Without knowing every single detail in a man's life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not!

I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.

As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free.

The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given no man ability to do much, that something might be left for every man to do. The business of life is carried on by a general co-operation; in which the part of any single man can be no more distinguished, than the effect of a particular drop when the meadows are floated by a summer shower: yet every drop increases the inundation, and every hand adds to the happiness or misery of mankind.

I built a studio in L.A. for me and my brother to just write every single day. And it's been great, man.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

I saw 'Clueless' probably when I was about 8 or 9 years old. And, I had certain films that I would fall asleep so it was 'Clueless' for quite a long time, and I used to just watch it every single night and knew every single line, every single quote.

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.

Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.