Single Man Quotes

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.

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.

There is not a single man in prison today who does not claim to be an ardent patriot

I do not know which is the more preferable, a government composed of several members but sovereign in the country, or a government of a single man with several inferior administrations all having the attributes of constitutional power…. The present government succeeds in combining the worst of both systems by having a infinity of governments all endowed with constitutional laws and separate powers, so that departmental (provincial) councils dispute with the government and the towns and the communes.

Many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man.

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

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.

No single man can bear the whole burden of Empire — I need a colleague, or perhaps several colleagues

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.

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

Is there a single man among you who would vote for negro suffrage if he believed the negroes would vote the Democratic ticket? Not one, and you know it.

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

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.

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

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.

It's not true that married men live longer than single men. It only seems longer.

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

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

A bachelor is a guy who leans toward women - but not far enough to lose his balance.

You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.

'tis enough to make Laws to punish Crimes when they are committed, and not to put it in the power of any single Man, on pretence of preventing Offences to commit worse.

To trample democracy with one’s feet and to give power to a single man over almost eighty million people is so terrible that one can very probably tremble over the events which will come here.

I've always been a singles guy.

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.

Nothing can be imagined better, or more perfect, than the administration of a virtuous man. Besides, when a single man is master, it is more difficult for the enemy to discover his secret counsels and resolutions. When the government is in the hands of many, it is impossible but enmity and hatred must arise among them; for, as every one desires his opinion to be followed, they gradually become mutual enemies