Top 100 Man Single Quotes

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

Napoleon Hill

Man Single Quotes #1050292
#2. 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.

Theodore Parker

Man Single Quotes #1284319
#3. What I described last," said Francisco, "is any man who proclaims his right to a single penny of another man's effort.

Ayn Rand

Man Single Quotes #1281487
#4. No single man can change the destiny of the world because the world cannot transform itself on its own. The world can only transform itself collectively.

David Ssembajjo

Man Single Quotes #1269611
#5. The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development

C.S. Lewis

Man Single Quotes #1238361
#6. I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter.

Chris Kirkpatrick

Man Single Quotes #1201054
#7. I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

Dan Dailey

Man Single Quotes #1191416
#8. It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point and you build for that. You zero in on one moment that gets that character, you go for it, that's it, man, and if you fail the whole thing is down the drain, but if you make it you hit the moon.

Jack Lemmon

Man Single Quotes #1174005
#9. Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

Man Single Quotes #1148980
#10. One could certainly think of a man not in terms of a body but as a single vital current. And this would allow one to grasp the concept of existence as dynamic and on-going, rather than as static.

Yukio Mishima

Man Single Quotes #1139166
#11. The state of Virginia had turned down twenty-one thousand women for admission to state colleges in 1970 while not turning away a single man ...

Meg Waite Clayton

Man Single Quotes #1135861
#12. In times of change, a single, conscious man can equal a million sleeping

Michael Goorjian

Man Single Quotes #1099818
#13. He was a man who did not properly exist in any single world, but he seemed to have found a place between them, and that, more than his past, was who he was.

Marie Brennan

Man Single Quotes #1091226
#14. In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.

Robert Dale Owen

Man Single Quotes #1370445
#15. It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

Jean Webster

Man Single Quotes #1014781
#16. All these guiding principles in therapy confront the doctor with important ethical duties which can be summed up in the single rule: be the man through whom you wish to influence others.

C. G. Jung

Man Single Quotes #1012685
#17. 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

Man Single Quotes #1011490
#18. My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.

Cory Booker

Man Single Quotes #991011
#19. No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.

China Machado

Man Single Quotes #979445
#20. The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.

Elisabeth Elliot

Man Single Quotes #971782
#21. 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

Man Single Quotes #949889
#22. Just for the sake of amusement, ask each passenger to tell you his story, and if you find a single one who hasn't often cursed his life, who hasn't told himself he's the most miserable man in the world, you can throw me overboard head first.

Voltaire

Man Single Quotes #940033
#23. Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking ... I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

Mark Twain

Man Single Quotes #936055
#24. There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence. How strange that so few of us try a course of the same medicine!

John Frederick Boyes

Man Single Quotes #929139
#25. A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Man Single Quotes #911375
#26. By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

Mikhail Bakunin

Man Single Quotes #1672224
#27. It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'

Lysander Spooner

Man Single Quotes #1876089
#28. Peter was a gentle, red-haired bear of a man. Standing at six-four in his socks, he moved everywhere with a slight and nautical sway, but even though he was broad across the chest there was something centered and reassuring about him, like an old ship's mast cut from a single timber.

Graham Joyce

Man Single Quotes #1861388
#29. Sexual starvation forces a heterosexual man to see beauty in every single female who he can sleep with without his society's disapproval.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Man Single Quotes #1843077
#30. In fact one is tempted to ask whether there is a single man left ready, for once, to commit an outrageous folly.

Soren Kierkegaard

Man Single Quotes #1813175
#31. Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

Alexander Pope

Man Single Quotes #1800797
#32. Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

Juvenal

Man Single Quotes #1786449
#33. Remember that ofttimes the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right.

Thomas S. Monson

Man Single Quotes #1759083
#34. I think the difference is not in the man, but how many stand behind him. I think that change will truly come when their combined fists are bigger than a single mighty one.

Meljean Brook

Man Single Quotes #1733104
#35. I'm not any kind of girl. I don't need man, but I don't hate romance. I think I'm kinda obsessed with romance, really, which is probably why I'm still single. -Mia

Audrey Carlan

Man Single Quotes #1722486
#36. The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile
it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

John F. Kennedy

Man Single Quotes #1701434
#37. I sometimes try to imagine what future historians will say about us. They'll be able to sum up modern man in a single sentence: he fornicated and read the papers. After that robust description, I should guess there will be no more to say on the subject.

Albert Camus

Man Single Quotes #1700216
#38. 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

Man Single Quotes #1695196
#39. Going to church will not get you the black man you seek and it never will. Page 98

Deborrah Cooper

Man Single Quotes #909756
#40. Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.

Jorge Luis Borges

Man Single Quotes #1649947
#41. Given the lethal enormity of sin and the inestimable value of a single soul, a baby in a manger and a man on a cross makes more sense that anything else I will ever be able to possibly imagine.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Man Single Quotes #1560109
#42. I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can."
-from "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life

Walt Whitman

Man Single Quotes #1552975
#43. A person can change the way he talks, but not the way he sneezes. A person can turn single-fold eyelids into double folds, but the greatest plastic surgeon alive cannot change the look in a man's eyes.

Mo Yan

Man Single Quotes #1508304
#44. If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.

Leo Tolstoy

Man Single Quotes #1487222
#45. 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

Man Single Quotes #1483636
#46. Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

Winston Churchill

Man Single Quotes #1449754
#47. Beware the man of the single book

Bertrand Russell

Man Single Quotes #1445797
#48. Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped.

Christopher Isherwood

Man Single Quotes #1406701
#49. Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever heard. About three years late, women got wise an my frustration returned to normal levels.

Steve Martin

Man Single Quotes #1398642
#50. 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?

Megan Whalen Turner

Man Single Quotes #1394314
#51. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

Samuel Goldwyn

Man Single Quotes #218590
#52. Four construction workers sit around four greasy bowls in silence. The cook, an old man who died several days ago, has been allowed to rot on his stool. The single round light is dappled with the bodies of dead insects, and the walls are decorated with spatters and dribbles of grease.

David Mitchell

Man Single Quotes #462477
#53. Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

Rudyard Kipling

Man Single Quotes #444885
#54. From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one
to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

Mark Twain

Man Single Quotes #436268
#55. 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.

Henry Fairfield Osborn

Man Single Quotes #428311
#56. The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

Jacob Bronowski

Man Single Quotes #422610
#57. Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man Single Quotes #380787
#58. 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

Man Single Quotes #369413
#59. Jane Austen vs. My Penis [20w]
"It is a truth universally that a single man
in possession of a penis must be in want of pussy.

Beryl Dov

Man Single Quotes #351843
#60. Never forget a man who holds a secret holds power. A Chinese proverb says: "If women want to keep a secret, one of them must die." What a splendid prospect, I thought! So far I have not heard one single encouraging word about this job.

John Eppler

Man Single Quotes #316712
#61. 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

Man Single Quotes #257750
#62. Breath, Perry. Let the air become you, and then leave you. Forgive each breath because although it abandons you, every single time, it is also brings you life. A man who cannot forgive the air has no chance of living. (Vin)

Edmond Manning

Man Single Quotes #250939
#63. Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

Willa Cather

Man Single Quotes #245426
#64. 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.

Karl Marx

Man Single Quotes #472135
#65. There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word
Man

George Orwell

Man Single Quotes #212264
#66. I learned how to believe in myself. Learned how to set goals, you know, self help books man. I just read every single one I can get a hold of, and I still do.

Drew Carey

Man Single Quotes #185252
#67. 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.

Albert Camus

Man Single Quotes #177047
#68. The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

Samuel Johnson

Man Single Quotes #169339
#69. Cecily: Oh, yes. Dr. Chasuble is a most learned man. He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows.

Oscar Wilde

Man Single Quotes #143249
#70. The man knows he's a target. He's very careful. The'll find the guns.'
Kolya responded with a mournful fart, low and solemn as a single note of a baritone horn.

David Benioff

Man Single Quotes #132634
#71. But listening to him [Barack Obama] speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state Senate.

Sarah Palin

Man Single Quotes #91491
#72. When I'm single, I'm this fabulous, independent, confident woman, and then I get involved with one disastrous man after another and I turn into this needy, insecure, fearful girl who becomes frightened of her own shadow.

Jane Green

Man Single Quotes #83952
#73. And then many things became very clear ... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

Ernesto Che Guevara

Man Single Quotes #65717
#74. 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

Man Single Quotes #33144
#75. No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

Jorge Luis Borges

Man Single Quotes #20484
#76. The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be

E. E. Cummings

Man Single Quotes #729765
#77. I worked in a schizophrenic home when I was an undergrad. You learned to be jaded to the crazy things they would say to you, but there was one man that I always gave crazy respect to, even though he would say the exact same thing to me every single day.

Matt De La Pena

Man Single Quotes #907632
#78. I am the man of your dreams?" He smiled a little at the thought. "Of every" - she pressed a kiss to his lips - "single" - she kissed him again - "dream.

Sarah M. Eden

Man Single Quotes #904336
#79. It was a white-collar crime."
Illium gave her an odd look. "In the human world, such crimes are lightly punished, though they harm hundreds, leading some to choose death out of despair, while the man who beats a single person is considered the worse criminal.

Nalini Singh

Man Single Quotes #898263
#80. 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.

Amber Tamblyn

Man Single Quotes #892323
#81. The train resembles the Soviet type and is quite comfortable, but all socialist structures I have ever encountered have toilets stemming from a single model engineered by the Orthodox Church in Tsarist Russia to ensure that man never be allowed to forget the corruption of the flesh.

Arthur Miller

Man Single Quotes #888122
#82. All you single fathers got to man up.

Tracy Morgan

Man Single Quotes #885278
#83. And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

Dan Aykroyd

Man Single Quotes #861474
#84. Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part of his readers, but must be a very ill man if he could please himself.

Joseph Addison

Man Single Quotes #831973
#85. Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).

Mark Twain

Man Single Quotes #829851
#86. Convince a man to take a single step - after all, what earthly difference could one step make? - and he would walk the next mile to prove himself right.

R. Scott Bakker

Man Single Quotes #789987
#87. I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

Robert Kennedy

Man Single Quotes #789849
#88. I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submariner, my sidearmer and my bat dodger. Man's got to do what he's got to do.

Satchel Paige

Man Single Quotes #752711
#89. 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.

Jorge Luis Borges

Man Single Quotes #4810
#90. The diversity of this man staggers me completely. This man is a brutal, demanding sex Lord in one breath, and a tender, gentle lover in the next. I love all elements of him, every single one.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

Man Single Quotes #723708
#91. Your little r changes the status of a single lady 'Ms' into a respectable lady 'Mrs'. Man, you make the difference!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Man Single Quotes #721291
#92. Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it.

Frederick Rolfe

Man Single Quotes #713226
#93. She spoke Basque, which is a language which rarely makes any impression upon the brains of any other race, so that a man may hear it as often and as long as he likes, but never afterwards be able to recall a single syllable of it.

Susanna Clarke

Man Single Quotes #573277
#94. Every single man hangs by a thread, a bottomless pit can open beneath him any minute, and yet he still goes on thinking up unpleasantnesses for himself and making a mess of his life.

Ivan Turgenev

Man Single Quotes #543795
#95. Yehya would never admit that he was just a single, powerless man in a society where rules and restrictions were stronger than everything else, stronger than the ruler himself, stronger

Basma Abdel Aziz

Man Single Quotes #535881
#96. 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.

Aldo Leopold

Man Single Quotes #530495
#97. Who do you think has more freedom: the married man in America or the single man in Communist China?

Larry David

Man Single Quotes #507337
#98. Convoy? Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single vehicle.

Steve Coogan

Man Single Quotes #492757
#99. So, now I am left with two unfortunate facts in my life. Mondays are creepy Chuck day, and even my mother thinks I'm getting desperate in the man department.

Lindsay Detwiler

Man Single Quotes #485250
#100. 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.

Sylvester Stallone

Man Single Quotes #475465

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