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A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Bachelor

JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

4.5 · 59 votes · 195 reads

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A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

Bachelor

JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

3.4 · 39 votes · 179 reads

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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

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Jean de la Bruyère

French1645 · 17th century

3.6 · 56 votes

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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

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Benjamin Franklin

PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

3.9 · 50 votes · 179 reads

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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

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Henry Louis Mencken

JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

4.6 · 48 votes

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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.

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Henry Louis Mencken

JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

4.8 · 42 votes

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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.

Bachelor

PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

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PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Bachelor

NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

4.2 · 64 votes

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It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

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Henry Louis Mencken

JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

4.4 · 40 votes · 108 reads

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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
Alexander Pope
PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century
3.7 · 28 votes · 120 reads
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
Helen Rowland
JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century
4.0 · 46 votes · 73 reads
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Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
Oscar Wilde
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
4.9 · 15 votes · 14 reads
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Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Helen Rowland
JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century
3.0 · 29 votes · 2 reads
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