The Double Quotes

The Double Quote of the day

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

You dirty, double-crossing rat.

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

Never run away from anything. Never!

More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.

Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

He slides into second with a stand-up double.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

There will never be no love at all.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards.

Nothing spells shame like living what feels like a double life.

Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

Sometimes I'll flip through a magazine and do a double take when I see myself in it, it's just crazy!

If you're injured in an automobile accident, and you sue the driver, you get much more for your injury than if you're fighting for your country. There's a double standard here.

Hopefully with a woman President the double standard will slowly begin to wane.

Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.

The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

I take it personal when people don't double me. It's against my religion not to double me. It upsets me. It makes me think they're saying to themselves I don't have it anymore.

I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that. -Benedick (Much Ado)

The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout 'double life' situation, and for that, I am very grateful.