Double Quotes - page 3

The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all. (Richard Cobden)
The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
If a man could have just half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts. View quote
Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Age carries with it a double load of guilt. View quote
José Saramago
It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide them; if equal, engage them; if fewer, defend against them; if weaker, be able to avoid them. View quote
Sun Tzu
I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be. View quote
Mila Kunis
In the university of God, however brilliant you may be, you will not be given double promotion. You must take every course, because each course serves a purpose. View quote
T. B. Joshua
For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock. (Frank Sinatra)
We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great. View quote
Hugo Weaving
If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. View quote
Thomas J. Watson
I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our Bartlett's. View quote
Rod Serling
From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were hostile, and the man who pretended they were not, was in his eyes a schoolmaster - that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys. View quote
Henry Adams
Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble... View quote
Garth Nix
My expectations of other people, I double them on myself. View quote
James Brown
In 1975, Congress passed a law requiring fuel efficiency standards to double over 10 years, with incremental targets that auto manufacturers were required to meet. That was the responsible approach, and it worked. But since 1985, we've done nothing - even as technology has moved at light speed. View quote
Michael Bloomberg
I am the Prince of Wales and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere Nor can one England brook a double reign. View quote
William Shakespeare
Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. (Simone de Beauvoir)
There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon. View quote
Thomas Hood
Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
I'd be surprised if Ronald Reagan doesn't run again. To us it's a second term. To him it's a double feature. View quote
Robert Orben
What is strength without a double share of wisdom? View quote
John Milton