Quotes about Single Man

A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. Votes: 6

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man. Votes: 6

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Votes: 6

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure. Votes: 6

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. Votes: 6

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty. Votes: 6

This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying. Votes: 6

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die. Votes: 4

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization. Votes: 4

Who do you think has more freedom: the married man in America or the single man in Communist China? Votes: 4

A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can't move. Votes: 4

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope. Votes: 4

All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain. Votes: 4

We have to start looking at the world through women's eyes' how are human rights, peace and development defined from the perspective of the lives of women? It's also important to look at the world from the perspective of the lives of diverse women, because there is not single women's view, any more than there is a single men's view. Votes: 4

I defy my honored opponents to give me the name of a single man imprisoned in the United States, Great Britain, or West Germany for being an atheist. But in former communist countries, millions of our Christian brothers and sisters in faith have passed through jails or been killed. Who has fought for freedom and obtained it - atheists or Christians? Votes: 4

I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I don't know why. I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest when I was about 13, and I dressed like him. I tried to do his accent. I did everything like him. I think it kind of stuck with me. Votes: 4

I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money. Votes: 2

I would willingly give fifty thousand crowns to be able to say that I took Paris without costing the life of one single man. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes. Votes: 2

The New Testament doesn't present Jesus as a single man to cover up his humanity. It presents him as a single man because... he was a single man. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders. Votes: 2

During the whole campaign, from June 27 to July 31, there has been no shirking or hesitation, to tiring on the part of a single man so far as I have seen; the brigade commanders reported none. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Most mustaches lie waiting for some Clark Gable or Tom Selleck to fix them in the mind. The greatest are identified with a single man, a bad man, usually, who so wrapped his identity with a particular configuration of facial hair that the two became inseparable. Votes: 2

Beware the man of a single book. Votes: 0

Beware the man of the single book Votes: 0

All you single fathers got to man up. Votes: 0

Communication is the most important single activity of man. Votes: 0

A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding. Votes: 0

A single man is minority, a leader is the majority. Votes: 0

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave. Votes: 0

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice. Votes: 0

I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter. Votes: 0

A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil! Votes: 0

The high courage of a single man is an army all by itself! Votes: 0

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought. Votes: 0

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Votes: 0

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. Votes: 0

A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is. Votes: 0

The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted. Votes: 0

When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man Votes: 0

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair. Votes: 0

There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man. Votes: 0

The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus. Votes: 0

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe. Votes: 0

For a man to challenge the darkness he need only be armed with a single spark. Votes: 0

No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words Votes: 0

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing. Votes: 0

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. Votes: 0

No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it. Votes: 0

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought. Votes: 0

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture. Votes: 0

There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage. Votes: 0

Convoy? Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single vehicle. Votes: 0

For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing. Votes: 0

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. Votes: 0

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable? Votes: 0

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day. Votes: 0

A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey. Votes: 0

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No Votes: 0

Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime? Votes: 0

Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified. Votes: 0

In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .' Votes: 0

Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free. Votes: 0

I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people. Votes: 0

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man Votes: 0

I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines. Votes: 0

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation. Votes: 0

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. Votes: 0

The average married man lives two thousand and five days longer than his single counterpart, albeit with less reason. Votes: 0

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. Votes: 0

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. Votes: 0

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot. Votes: 0

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. Votes: 0

And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool. Votes: 0

Without knowing every single detail in a man's life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not! Votes: 0

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer. Votes: 0

Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand. Votes: 0

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man. Votes: 0

Man, everything gets blamed on the Clintons, every single thing in this world. I think Bill Clinton shot JFK, too. Votes: 0

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development-- Votes: 0

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Votes: 0

Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery...a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery. Votes: 0

The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts. Votes: 0

The last clear definite function of men"”muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need"”this is man. Votes: 0

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind. Votes: 0

It doesn't take the most powerful nations on Earth to create the next global conflict. Just the will of a single man. Votes: 0

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself. Votes: 0

I found a new breed of people, 'Facebook Man' - Comments on anything, but don't even have a single own Status post!!! Votes: 0

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart. Votes: 0

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends. Votes: 0

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind. Votes: 0

If you haven't met Kenny (Young) you have not seen how the spirit of Boston can be embodied by one single man. Votes: 0

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. Votes: 0

I will never have greater respect than for the man that realizes he was wrong and graciously admits it without a single excuse. Votes: 0

A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities. Votes: 0

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane. Votes: 0

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. Votes: 0

A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell. Votes: 0

It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God. Votes: 0

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded. Votes: 0

Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul. Votes: 0

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality. Votes: 0

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. Votes: 0

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A single God - touch From God's Compassion - Height Can transform man's unimaginable And countless weaknesses Into God's own infinite,Immortal and omnipotent Power. Votes: 0

It's not MAN who is the scourge of the world, it's a single culture. One culture out of hundreds of thousands of cultures. Our culture. Votes: 0

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. Votes: 0

Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single. Votes: 0

Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Lightthrough whom is splintered from a single Whiteto many hues, and endlessly combinedin living shapes that move from mind to mind. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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!" Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife. Votes: 0

Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and never overnight Votes: 0

The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment "” the moment when a man knows forever more who he is. Votes: 0

For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast! Votes: 0

The only reason I send a single young man or woman in uniform anywhere in the world is because I think it's necessary to keep us safe. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it. Votes: 0

In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in. Votes: 0

All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values. Votes: 0

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology. Votes: 0

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food. Votes: 0

A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted. Votes: 0

A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted." Votes: 0

The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity. Votes: 0

If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a single blade of grass. Votes: 0

The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing. Votes: 0

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime. Votes: 0

Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe! Votes: 0

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. Votes: 0

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man. Votes: 0

If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. [One may know the condition of a whole army from the behavior of a single man.] Votes: 0

Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole army as though you had to do with but a single man. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place. Votes: 0