One

Famous quotes containing the word one:

    “The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.”
    —Freya Stark (b. 1893–1993)

    “I haven’t read one book about
    A book or memorized one plot,
    Or found a mind I did not doubt,
    I learned one date. And then forgot.
    And one by one the solid scholars
    Get the degrees, the jobs, the dollars.”
    —William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

    “I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suckers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on one, no one seemed to care where the pacifier had been.”
    —Erma Bombeck (20th century)