Single Man Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.

  Clark Gable

  Men, Ideas, Kind

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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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• I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has never been married. An unmarried man is not married at the moment. Many of these terms have fallen into disuse.

  Raymond Burr

  Men, Married, Bachelors

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• The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Literature, Married

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• I want to record history through the destiny of individuals who often belong to the least wealthy classes. I do not want to show war in general, nor history with a capital H, but rather the tragedy of a single man, of a family.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, War, Destiny

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• All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Men, Hands, Desire

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• Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Time, Loneliness, Men

  The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)

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• I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over forty as single men. That's what we got from the women's movement. The chickens have come home to roost.

  Jack Nicholson

  Home, Men, Three

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• As if one crime of such nature, done by a single man, acting individually, can be expiated by a similar crime done by all men, acting collectively.

  Lewis E. Lawes

  Men, Acting, Done

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Two, Democracy

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• Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teamwork, Honesty, Integrity

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

  Dan Dailey

  Inspirational, Military, Patriotic

  "The Marines' Bulletin", Vol. 1, Issues 1-3, 1918.

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Liberty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.378, Modern Library

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• Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Men, Mrs Bennet

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.9, Lulu.com

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• The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Character, Men, Average

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern brethren.

  Isham G. Harris

  War, Men, Rights

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• But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the governments have generally been the result of a single man's observations; or the offspring of particular interests. In the formation of our constitution, the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted-as well as the opinions and interests of the millions who are concerned. In short, it is an empire of reason.

  Noah Webster

  Men, Age, Together

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• There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.

  Eliphas Levi

  Powerful, Mean, Men

  Eliphas Levi (2015). “Transcendental Magic”, p.41, Eliphas Levi

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• Who do you think has more freedom: the married man in America or the single man in Communist China?

  Larry David

  Men, Thinking, America

  "Curb Your Enthusiasm". TV Series, (2000-).

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• The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Mean, Fate, Men

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 8: "The Monsters", p. 120, 1970.

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• People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Selfish, Men, Vacation

  Michel Houellebecq (2003). “Platform: A Novel”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. They overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped for decades thereafter, for centuries.

  Boris Pasternak

  Kings, War, Men

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