40 Quotes by Being Single

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

The part that’s difficult is being single, at 41, after 10 years of marriage and two kids. That’s like having a bunch of money in a currency of a country that doesn’t exist anymore.

Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

What is it like being single? I like it! I like starting each day with a sense of possibility. And I’m optimistic, because everyday I get a little more desperate. And desperate situations yield the quickest results.

Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

When you’re under audit, you don’t give your papers. An audit is – I have been under audit for so many years. Every year, I get audited. For, I think, over 10 years, maybe even 12 years, I have been audited. And I think it’s very fair. And I think I’m being singled out.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.