Single Quotes

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."
-Albert Einstein

"I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people."
-Mark Twain

"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

"If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way."
-Buddha

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
-Anne Frank

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
-Aristotle

"All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"What I saw were two F-16 jets and they were circling overhead a single-engine plane and other jet fighter pilots were banking very quickly. And I saw them fire two warning flares in the direction of the single-engine plane."
-George Bernard Shaw

"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."
-Thomas Jefferson

"He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows."
-Oscar Wilde

"He hadn't a single redeeming vice."
-Oscar Wilde

"I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
-Oscar Wilde

"Few of our modern novelists dare to invent a single thing. It is an open secret that they don't know how to do it."
-Oscar Wilde

"Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace."
-Rita Mae Brown

"Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. "
-Benjamin Disraeli

"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."
-Rudyard Kipling

"I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor."
-Laurence Sterne

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."
-Carl Sagan

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
-Lao tzu

"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."
-Horace Mann

"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."
-Rene Descartes

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."
-Galileo Galilei

"The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead."
-Ann Landers

"A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history."
-Deepak Chopra

"If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world..."
-Deepak Chopra

"The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry."
-Bill Clinton

"It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world."
-William Cobbett