Single Figure

Famous quotes containing the words single and/or figure:

“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Evening attend two “fandangos.” Girls not very pretty but exceedingly graceful. [You] pay a dime for a figure and refreshments for your doxy, who instead of eating prudently stores her cakes, etc., in a basket to be taken home for the family.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)