Single Man Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Animal, Half

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.294, Regnery Publishing

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• No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

  Boris Pasternak

  Men, Growing, Grass

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• The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

  Kalki Krishnamurthy

  Men, Lightning, World

  "Kalki : Selected Stories" by Kalki Krishnamurthy, translated by Gowri Ramnarayan, ("Tiruvazhundur Sivakozhundu"), 1999.

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• If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Men, Equality

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• The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Occupation, Spinning

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi (1945). “Tagore and Gandhi Argue”

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

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Men, Genius

  Francis Bacon (2016). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.26, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.

  Jo Coudert

  Inspirational, Being Single, Self

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.131, iUniverse

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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Daughter, Men, Views

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• 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.

  Seamus Dever

  Commitment, Theatre, Used

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.

  Elton John

  Men, Spending

  "Sir Elton John: 'I spent £30m in 20 months'", www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2000.

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• Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Men, Earth, Birth

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• This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Men, Vitality

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.206, 谷月社

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• I say that they can be solved; there is no problem that cannot be, but faith is necessary. Think of the faith I had to have eighteen years ago, a single man on a lonely path. Yet I have come to leadership of the German people... Life is hard for many, but it is hardest if you are unhappy and have no faith. Have faith. Nothing can make me change my own belief.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lonely, Men, Thinking

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• As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Men, Garden, Two

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “O Grande Gatsby: The Great Gatsby: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.170, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Army

  Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.53, GENERAL PRESS

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.505

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• When you ask single men in their 20s, "Do you want children?" they want children more than women do. Again, economics drive this. If you're a 29-year-old woman, having a baby is going to seriously blow up your career. If you're a 29-year-old man, it isn't.

  Stephen Marche

  Baby, Children, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The high courage of a single man is an army all by itself!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Army, Men

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• The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition, and to revenge; but when it is guided by the sense of propriety and benevolence, it becomes the parent of every virtue, and, if those virtues are accompanied with equal abilities, a family, a state, or an empire may be indebted for their safety and prosperity to the undaunted courage of a single man.

  Edward Gibbon

  Revenge, Ambition, Men

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.488

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• Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant, and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president.

  Jack Balkin

  Bullying, Attitude, Men

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• I was fascinated by the [operation] of a U-boat ... where every single man was an indispensable part of the whole. Every submariner, I am sure, has experienced in his heart [the joy of] the task entrusted to him [and] felt as rich as a king.

  Karl Donitz

  Kings, Heart, Men

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• The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals.

  Derek Jarman

  Christian, Men, Epidemics

  Derek Jarman (1993). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal or force. Even with such a discovery, we could not expect one to do more than carry its owner.

  Simon Newcomb

  Men, Discovery, Flight

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• We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in arcane liturgies, single men trapped in worlds beyond our devising. The truth is far simpler: there are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Thinking, Our World

  Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlín R Kiernan, Elizabeth Bear (2014). “Lovecraft's Monsters”, p.21, Tachyon Publications

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• Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Race, Years

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.72, OUP Oxford

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