It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. — Jane Austen
'Single' is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize. — Mandy Hale
A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all — Greek Proverbs
A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind. — John Cheever
The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find. — Sayings
A man is a man, until that man finds a plan, a plan that makes that man, a new man — Dred Scott
A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to. — John F. Kennedy
He who remains unmarried impairs the divine image. — Rabbi Akiva
Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility. — Michael Douglas
Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I am single and not looking to be in a relationship. — Chris Evans
Short Single Man Quotes
Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life. — Stephen Hawking
Being single doesn't mean your weak. It means your strong enough to wait for what you deserve. — Niall Horan
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
It is easy to get divorced for a bachelor. — Turkish Proverbs
It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife ! — Akbar
I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire? — Zsa Zsa Gabor
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. — Andre Maurois
A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man. — Mario Puzo
Every man is defenseless unless he has a brother or a friend. — Icelandic Proverbs
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. — Albert Camus
Top 10 Single Man Quotes
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place. — Billy Crystal
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
The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought. — Muhammad Iqbal
Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me. — Jim Elliot
The man who goes to the gym every single day regardless of how he feels will always beat the man who goes to the gym when he feels like going to the gym. — Andrew Tate
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die. — Johnny Carson
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart. — Moliere
Single Man Image Quotes
Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.
Happy Single Man Quotes
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. — H. L. Mencken
One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. — Viktor E. Frankl
Give me a problem, I'll give you a solution. I just love living. That's a feeling you can't fake. I'm glad every single day. I think that even the camera can feel that I'm a happy man. — Will Smith
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. — Joseph Butler
Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men. — H. L. Mencken
I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter. — Chris Kirkpatrick
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask, is a fool for life.
A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities. — Frederick William Robertson
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. — Albert Camus
Good Single Man Quotes
Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil.... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good. — Maimonides
Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end. — Vasily Grossman
I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices. — Saint Augustine
I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man. — Thomas Jefferson
I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything. — George Gissing
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm. — Will Rogers
The only good thing about nuclear war is that it is the single most egalitarian idea that man has ever had. On the day of reckoning, you will not be asked to present your credentials. The devastation will be indiscriminate. — Arundhati Roy
Without knowing every single detail in a man's life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Single Guy Quotes
I didn’t fall in love with it just because it was me playing. I fell in love with it because I’ve got guys like this – like these guys every single day that push me to be the best that I can be. — Kevin Durant
If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like 'are you a unicorn?' — Margaret Cho
If some heterosexual wants to be gay, so what? Let him go. It's less competition for the heterosexual single guys. — Bill O'Reilly
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.
There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside. — LL Cool J
I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car. — Billy Corgan
I'm currently single, so I want to have fun! As for what guys need to do to date out of their league, it's all about the swagger. If you have confidence, you can get pretty much any girl. — Krysten Ritter
Words of comfort skillfully administered are the oldest therapy known to man.
My Fox guys, I love every single one of them. — Condoleezza Rice
When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York. — Joe Namath
In Sweeden every city looks the same. I've been to sixteen cities, and every single city is the same! The same cobblestone, the same McDonalds, the same everything. Everything was designed by the same guy. They must have saved a lot of money when they designed all the cities. — Pablo Francisco
I'd love to learn to cook. I think the ladies like a guy who can cook. Also, there are lots of available ladies at cooking classes. Can you tell I'm single? — Will Estes
Single Person Quotes
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. — Mary Kay Ash
You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them. — Justin Trudeau
The single biggest obstacle to us getting what we really need and want in life is right here. It's ourselves. — William Ury
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing. — Thomas A. Edison
Observing many companies in action, I am unable to point to a single instance in which stunning results were gotten without the active and personal leadership of the upper managers. — Joseph M. Juran
I'm writing songs that connect to millions of people. And that happens for a reason. I don't really worry too much about people who aren't into it because that's the beauty of music. It's subjective. If every single person in the world loved our music, then that'd be weird. — Matthew Healy
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives. — Steven Spielberg
Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning. — Emanuel Swedenborg
I work harder than every single person I know, and the only person that is on the same level as me is my brother. If you look at the top social media stars, it's me and him. I think that's our advantage. We're not the prettiest; we're not even the funniest, we're not the wittiest, whatever it is. — Jake Paul
You can take back all the things you give,
But you can't take back the days you live.
Life is to some people who've been on earth
Livin' every single day for what it's worth.
I live life just how I please,
Satisfy one person I know: that's me. — Too $hort
I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. — Charles R. Swindoll
Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family. — Abraham Maslow
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you! — Charles R. Swindoll
I don't have a single plan for my life more important than learning to love people well. — Andrea Gibson
I am more convinced everyday that without a single exception I did right. And I have always believed that, as I have acted honestly, the time will come when the people of Canada will see and acknowledge it. — Louis Riel
If you want to test a man’s character give him power.
People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing. — Charlotte Lamb
The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them. — John C. Maxwell
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. — Desiderius Erasmus
The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual. — Barbara Jordan
Alone Man Quotes
When you are alone, bless the solitude; when you are with someone, bless the togetherness! Think of the seagull: It flies alone happily; it flies with another happily too! Solitude is a food; togetherness is a food; man needs both and he must be happy with both! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself. — Neville Goddard
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. — Henrik Ibsen
Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul. — Haile Selassie
I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable in physiological terms...
Even the act of peeling a potato can be an artistic act if it is consciously done. — Joseph Beuys
Man who is created alone should be aware that he will also die alone. Yet during his life, he lives almost addicted to possessions... the only assets one can take with him when one dies is one's belief or disbelief — Harun Yahya
Single Women Quotes
You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love. — Warsan Shire
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. — Osho
My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude. — Warsan Shire
I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself. — Warsan Shire
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships. — Sharon Stone
Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with. — Sarah Jessica Parker
Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that. — Julie Delpy
Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw — Candace Bushnell
Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week. — Victoria Woodhull
Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of gender-related problems come up in terms of health, education, domestic violence, etc. — Kumari Jayawardena
Single Life Quotes
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha
We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them then a life of one hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, then a life of a single day can be a triumph. — Yip Man
There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them. — Jo Walton
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. — Georgia O'Keeffe
Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson. — Paula White
Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is. — Amy Carmichael
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. — Anne Frank
Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life. — Pema Chodron
Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that propel life. — Bruce H. Lipton
Single Relationship Quotes
Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies. — Candace Bushnell
No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos. — D. H. Lawrence
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future. — Dr. An Wang
If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them. — Michael Bassey
In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower? — Warren Hutcherson
If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again. — Sam Palladio
I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day. — R. Kelly
Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music. — Mac Miller
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. — Charlotte Bronte
The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it. — Dan Barber
Single Status Quotes
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. — Calvin Coolidge
I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone. — Delta Burke
Being single doesn't necessarily mean you're available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says "Do Not Disturb" on your heart. — Wiz Khalifa
Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life. — Brian Tracy
I love being single. It's almost like being rich. — Sue Grafton
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings. — Elizabeth Gilbert
One of the reasons so many singles are dissatisfied is that they're looking for a change in status to define their significance, rather than finding a purpose in life, granted by God, that gives them significance regardless of the status they're in. — Tony Evans
If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts. — Thomas Merton
You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit. — Bipasha Basu
...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well. — Timothy Keller
Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. — Martin Heidegger
Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love — Marc Chagall
I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World. — Will Rogers
It's not true that married men live longer than single men. It only seems longer. — Henny Youngman
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. — Carl Sagan
There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe. — George Bernard Shaw
Nick, You know, The first guy I met when I first got to Seattle, As an eighteen year old, You took me in. You believed in me from the beginning. You knew that I had potential. And every single day I know I could look at you And know that you respect me As a man, As a player, And you gonna ride with me to the end. I thank you. — Kevin Durant
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. — William Penn
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! — Andy Mineo
Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. — Robin Williams
Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile. — Mae West
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. — Charlotte Bunch
All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Jesus Christ said more about money than about any other single thing because, when it comes to a man's real nature, money is of first importance. Money is an exact index to a man's true character. All through Scripture there is an intimate correlation between the development of a man's character and how he handles his money. — Richard Halverson
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. — Ron Miles
Sure, I’m sad, but I’m not looking to soothe that sadness by replacing it with a new relationship. Women are allowed to be sad, and they’re allowed to be single, and they don’t need to hear that one day a man is going to make it all go away by telling her she is good enough again. She’s good enough as she is. — Charlotte Green
I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility. — Zora Neale Hurston
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. — Albrecht Durer
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
Humility collects the soul into a single point by the power of silence. A truly humble man has no desire to be known or admired by others, but wishes to plunge from himself into himself, to become nothing, as if he had never been born. When he is completely hidden to himself in himself, he is completely with God — Isaac of Nineveh
He took our flesh and our flesh became God, since it is united with God and forms a single entity with him. For the higher perfection dominated, resulting in my becoming God as fully as he became man. — Gregory of Nazianzus
The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place. — Arthur Ransome
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection. — Alfred Adler
One thing is certain: When the time has come, nothing which is man-made will subsist. One day, all human accomplishments will be reduced to a pile of ashes. But every single child to whom a has given birth will live forever, for he has been given an immortal soul made to God's image and likeness. — Alice von Hildebrand
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. — David Lloyd George
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. — Wilbur Smith
As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way. — Bernie Sanders
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought. — H. L. Mencken
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