Bachelors Quotes

• A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Anniversary, Mistake

  "Fearless and Funny: When Comedy Was Queen" by Michael Drew, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

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• The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.

  Tommy Chong

  Couple, Daddy, Records

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• Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

  Jean Harris

  Winning, Going Away, Situation

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• I'm probably the only member of the 'Bachelor' cast without an agent!

  Jake Pavelka

  Agents, Members, Casts

  "Jake Pavelka, Vienna Girardi ('The Bachelor')". Digital Spy Interview, www.digitalspy.com. March 2, 2010.

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• A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

  Joseph Addison

  Book, Men, Black

  'The Spectator' no. 1, 1 March 1711

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• A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.

  Helen Rowland

  Women, Order, Tangled

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.41, Lulu.com

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• I don't think I'm destined to be the eternal bachelor.

  Jesse Metcalfe

  Thinking, Eternal, Destined

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• You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Names, Facts

  Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905) "The Norwood Builder"

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• Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

  Desmond Morris

  Long, Return, Compliment

  desmond morris (1967). “tha naked ape”

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• The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

  George Jean Nathan

  Men, Often Is, Yoke

  George Jean Nathan (1941). “The bachelor life”

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• Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Married, Married Man

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane”, p.322, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Marriage, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Francis Bacon

  Lunch Break, Cooking Dinner, Breakfast

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• The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

  Hugh Hefner

  Men, Ideas, Single Life

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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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Animal, Half

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.294, Regnery Publishing

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• A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fashion, Men, Wife

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• The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Animal, Wind, Risk

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• Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

  Charles Bukowski

  Funny, Spiritual, Men

  1967 Tales of Ordinary Madness,'Too Sensitive'.

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

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Relationship

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• I want to be the most eligible bachelor in New York City.

  Andrej Pejic

  New York, Cities, Want

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

  Helen Rowland

  Inspirational, Beauty, Single

  A Guide to Men "Bachelors" (1922)

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• When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Thinking, Married

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [262]

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• Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

  Nora Ephron

  Summer, Breeze, Short Summer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I declare that I am a bachelor.

  Julian Eltinge

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• A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Stupid

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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