Single Gentleman

Famous quotes containing the words single gentleman, single and/or gentleman:

    [The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.
    Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    A single fiber does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.
    Chinese proverb.

    Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
    Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)