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• The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Funny, Marriage, Husband

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• Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Should Have, Politics, Politician

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• Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Wife, Way

  Letter to his son, Webb Hayes. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, March 20, 1890.

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• Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Men, Wife

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

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Judging, Merit

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3

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• Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

  Mark Kennedy

  Country, Eight, Engineering

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• I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Art, Reading, Mean

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• Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

  Thomas Fuller

  Husband, Men, Married

  Thomas Fuller (1840). “The Holy State and the Profane State”, p.172

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• Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Wedding, Second Chance, Hands

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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.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Art, Making Love

  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.42, Lulu.com

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• There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

  Honore de Balzac

  Smile, Pregnancy, Literature

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• One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

  Orson Scott Card

  War, Irritation, Thousand

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1337, Macmillan

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• If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, People, Wife

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.567, Jazzybee Verlag

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• About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.

  Arne Duncan

  School, Average, Two

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• As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across premieval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle ('Please read this carefully and send it on Jane') the clan has a tendency to ignore me. It's one of the advantages I get from being a bachelor - and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Cousin, Uncles, Aunt

  The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) ch. 16

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• A bachelor is a guy who leans toward women - but not far enough to lose his balance.

  Earl Wilson

  Guy, Balance, Enough

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• The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

  Samuel Richardson

  Women, Modern Woman, Uselessness

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.189

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• Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

  Stephen Hawking

  Men, Things In Life, Should

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• By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Anniversary, Single, Funny Valentines Day

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Morning, Work, Men

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Hard Work, Doctors, Self

  Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.263, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Trust, Husband

  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.95, Lulu.com

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• Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Crush, Humor

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1040, e-artnow

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• Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cooking, Sauce, Sin

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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