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)

“To these men
The landscape is an armory of powers,
Which, one by one, they know how to draw and use.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“When one by one our ties are torn,
And friend from friend is snatched forlorn;
When man is left alone to mourn,
Oh! then how sweet it is to die!”
—Anna Letitia (Aikin)