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Following is our list of double quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about single or double.

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Famous Double Quotes

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon. — Thomas Hood

A joy that's shared is a joy made double. — John Ray

Two heads are better than one. — Unknown Author

Two heads are better than one. — Proverbs

A devil takes one and makes two, a saint takes two and makes one. — Moroccan Proverbs

When two forces unite, their efficiency double. — Isaac Newton

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. — Swedish Proverbs

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows. — Euripides

It takes two men to make one brother. - Israel Zangwill It takes two men to make one brother. - Israel Zangwill

It takes two men to make one brother. — Israel Zangwill

Where one is wise two are happy. — Proverbs

The beauty of YouTube is double the effort isn't double the views, it's like 10x. — MrBeast

one's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family? — Marie Antoinette

It takes two hands to clap. — Jiang Zemin

Two lovely berries moulded on one stem; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart. — William Shakespeare

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. — Richard Wilbur

Short Double Quotes

  • Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho
  • Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger. — Channing Tatum
  • There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head! — John Hancock
  • Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! — William Shakespeare
  • I would have met Jesus sooner if not for Christians who led double lives. — Keith Green
  • Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. — Steve Jobs
  • If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning. — Mae West
  • None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. — Jane Austen
  • You dirty, double-crossing rat. — James Cagney
  • It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Double Image Quotes

Double quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur Double quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

Single Quotes

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. - Francis of Assisi All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. - Francis of Assisi

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. — Francis of Assisi

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. — Oscar Wilde

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Double quote To double your success, triple what you spend on personal development and professional learning. The Double quote To double your success, triple what you spend on personal development and professional learning. The
To double your success, triple what you spend on personal development and professional learning. The person who know the most becomes the best.

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

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. - F. Scott Fitzgerald Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. — Henry David Thoreau

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us - Pablo Neruda Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us - Pablo Neruda

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us — Pablo Neruda

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. — George Bernard Shaw

Single Or Double Quotes

Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters. — Donna J. Haraway

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. — Johannes P. Muller

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 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. — Johannes Peter Muller

But centaurs never existed; there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body composed of incongruous parts With a consequent disparity in the faculties. The stupidest person ought to be convinced of that. — Lucretius

But the Danzig unreleased stuff will be either a single or a double CD. — Glenn Danzig

The 'size' of science has doubled steadily every 15 years. In a century this means a factor of 100. For every single scientific paper or for every single scientist in 1670, there were 100 in 1770, 10,000 in 1870 and 1,000,000 in 1970. — John Ziman

Double Life Quotes

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. — Oscar Wilde

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. — Ellen G. White

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. — Henry David Thoreau

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

In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy. — Bobby McFerrin

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

Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo. — Herbert J. Muller

If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio. — Harvey Mackay

A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life. — Jorge Luis Borges

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. — Thomas Watson, Jr.

Double Meaning Quotes

God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure! — Sayings

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side. — Logan Pearsall Smith

I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs. — Jay-Z

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

[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio. — Thomas Malthus

Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing. — Stanley Spencer

Double gold means I'm king of the sprints. It shows I'm the best sprinter around. — Justin Gatlin

All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness. — Gretel Ehrlich

See yourself as you really are. Listen to what none of your leaders and representatives dares tell you: You are a "little, common man." Understand the double meaning of these words: "little" and "common." Don't run. Have the courage to look at yourself! — Wilhelm Reich

I thought The Limits of Control could be interpreted in two ways: as the limits of one's self-control; and as the limits of allowing other people's control over one's - consciousness - which I kind of thought was a double meaning that was appropriate. — Jim Jarmusch

Double Standard Quotes

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

All standards are double standards. — Tucker Carlson

Never run away from anything. Never! — Winston Churchill

We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice. — Mamoru Oshii

It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free. — George Carlin

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. — Jane Austen

We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled. — Jens Stoltenberg

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

Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss. — Bill Maher

People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq. — Jacob Zuma

Double Take Quotes

Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful. — Umera Ahmed

For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino. — Barbara Ehrenreich

I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now. — Neil Patrick Harris

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again. — Maajid Nawaz

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes. — Natalia Makarova

After the last financial crisis, the banks more than doubled their capital and liquidity and they’re far more aware and better at managing the risks they’re taking. — Jerome Powell

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man. — Gordon Ramsay

Some guys are football smart and they're not smart in other ways. Other guys get 1500 on their SATs and can't get a double-team block right. No, that definitely, in my experience, sometimes it correlates, sometimes it doesn't. I don't think you just take it for granted. — Bill Belichick

The Rule of 72 is useful in determining how fast money will grow. Take the annual return from any investment, expressed as a percentage, and divide it into 72. The result is the number of years it will take to double your money. — Peter Lynch

If you want to make a mythical creature, just take a regular animal and add wings to it. A horse becomes a pegasus, a lion becomes a griffin, and a hawk... becomes a double hawk. — Demetri Martin

Double Me Quotes

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? - Mae West Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? - Mae West

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? — Mae West

It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled. — Aimee Mullins

I will garden on the double run, my rhythm obvious in the ringing rakes, and trust in fate to keep me poor and kind and work until my heart is short, then go out slowly with a feeble grin, my fingers flexing but my eyes gone gray from cramps and the lack of oxygen. — Richard Hugo

To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical. — Serj Tankian

Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet. — Maxine

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

I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946... We went out on a double date and it turned out to be a fair evening for me. I seduced a girl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz. — Norman Mailer

I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, 'Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you're upset? — Mario Cantone

I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility. — Hassan II of Morocco

For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment. — Ferran Adria

Double Minded Quotes

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none. — Giuseppe Mazzini

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge. — Jay Griffiths

[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral [force]; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression. — Joel Barlow

Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined. — Pierre de Coubertin

If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank. — P. G. Wodehouse

Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence. — Madame de Stael

A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity. — Joseph Joubert

We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay. — Ruth Pitter

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together. — Charles Caleb Colton

Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think. — William Goldman

Double Entendre Quotes

This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother. — Ted Walsh

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

Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew. — Harry Carpenter

I like double entendre because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don't get it don't know about it. — Betty White

I don't just like sexual double entendres I love them, I stroke them, I milk them, I spank them when they're naughty. — Craig Ferguson

Triple Quotes

I really don't care if Stephanie enjoys kissing Kurt Angle. Or if Kurt Angle enjoys kissing Stephanie. Or hell, if Kurt Angle enjoys kissing Triple H! Cause as far as I'm concerned all three of you can kiss my ass! — Chris Jericho

The only reason why you were WWE Champion for a year, is because Triple H didn't want to work Tuesdays. — Paul Heyman

If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world. — Edward Grey

If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. — Barry Switzer

Anybody wants to call me the Triple H of Ring of Honor, I think that's hilarious. I would prefer to call Triple H the CM Punk of the WWE. — CM Punk

Never fear because Triple H is here. — Triple H

The Rule of Three is simply getting the other guy to agree to the same thing three times in the same conversation. It’s tripling the strength of whatever dynamic you’re trying to drill into at the moment. — Chris Voss

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass. — Mary Blakely

Research shows that when people get less than 7 hours of sleep per night, their chance of catching a cold triples, they report as much as 30% lower rates of wellbeing, risk of obesity soars, and they have less control over their hunger urges. — Dan Buettner

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More Double Quotes

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention. — Charlie Munger

Every positive thing in your life represents a single unique blessing. Every negative thing in your life has the opportunity to become a double blessing. For when you turn a negative into a positive, you gain twice. You are no longer burdened with the negative situation, and in addition to that you are strengthened by a new positive force. — Ralph Marston

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double. — Toni Morrison

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. — Roald Dahl

Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse. — Thom Yorke

Over the next five years, DARPA’s biohybrid programs advanced at an astonishing pace. Microprocessor technology was doubling in capacity every eighteen months. By June 29, 2007, when Apple rereleased its first-generation iPhone, Americans could now carry in their pockets more technology than NASA had when it sent astronauts to the moon. — Annie Jacobsen

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

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us. — Aldrich Ames

What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food. — Wolfgang Puck

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden. — David W. Wolfe

Be wary around your enemy once, and your friend a thousand times. A double-crossing friend knows more about what harms you. — Arabic Proverbs

If you want great things to happen in your career, think big... Focus on the future. Double-down on innovation. — Cathie Wood

The best way to stop Messi is when you play with 11 men and then you can double mark him, one player to stay on him and the other to help out. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him. — Jose Mourinho

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled. — Imran Khan

I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double. — James Stockdale

In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder. — Stephen Hawking

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety. — Steven Wright

We found that CAS9 has the ability to make a double-stranded break in DNA at sites that are programmed by a small RNA molecule. What was so important was that we could really show how the CAS9 protein worked. — Jennifer Doudna

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket. — American Proverbs

Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn. "Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods. — J. K. Rowling

There was no bitcoin double spend. Stop misreporting stuff, seriously. — Adam Back

One cannot help asking sadly, why is love of gold more potent than love of souls? The number of men mining and prospecting for gold in Shantung is more than double the number of men representing Southern Baptists! What a lesson for Southern Baptists to ponder! — Lottie Moon

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