(1226 quotes found)
“Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion”
Stephen Jay Gould
“I am never going to be famous...I do not do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that anymore.”
Dorothy Parker
“Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.”
Edna Ferber
“I like being single. I'm always there when I need me.”
Art Leo
“Right now I'm pretty single . . . . My career is my boyfriend.”
Christina Aguilera
“The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.”
Jacques Maritain
“Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.”
James Q. Wilson
“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”
Albert Einstein
“It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.”
Jane Austen
