Bachelors Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Bird, Merit, Woe

  Alexander Pope (1819). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.252

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• Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Art, Lying

  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.66, Lulu.com

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• Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?

  William Shakespeare

  Three, Score, Benedick

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [209]

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• Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.

  David Eddings

  College, Hands, Names

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• I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

  Jon Secada

  Jazz, Masters

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• [T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything like order and neatness is banished from our presence as a nuisance--old letters and old boots and shoes, duds clean and duds dirty, books and newspapers, tooth-brushes, shoe-brushes, and clothes-brushes, all heaped together on chairs, settees, etc., in dusty and "most admired confusion." Now, what is there imaginable in clean, tidy private life equal to this?

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Fun, Book, Dirty

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• I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

  George Eliot

  Husband, Women, Home

  The Mill on the Floss bk. 6, ch. 6 (1860)

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• I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.

  Maurice Gibb

  Heart, People, Way

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

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  Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

  Mae West

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  I'm No Angel (motion picture) (1933). Nigel Rees, in his Quote ... Unquote Newsletter, has found this joke appearing earlier in the cartoon "Pop" in 1921: "woman: 'You say what you like, Pop! Marriage is a jolly good institution!' POP: 'Yes! But who wants to live in an institution?"

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• We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Life, Marriage

  "The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America". Book by Lawrence J. Epstein, 2001.

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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.

  H. L. Mencken

  God, Believe, Son

  H. L. Mencken (2012). “In Defense of Women”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.

  Helen Rowland

  Inspiration, Men, Making Love

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• I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

  Daniel J. Evans

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.

  Linda Evans

  Father, Talking, Opposites

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• They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.

  Samuel Johnson

  Practice, Watches, Association

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.194

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• I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.

  Sara Gilbert

  Reality, Watches, Ashamed

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• Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.

  Wanda Sykes

  Marketing

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• Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Fun, Husband

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• I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I come home and like to read my book.

  William Ivey Long

  Book, Home, Flirting

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• I haven't seen this many men dressed in women's clothing since my bachelor party

  Bruce Willis

  Party, Men, Clothings

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• Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

  James Joyce

  Jesus, Men, Religion

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• A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Past, Men, Married

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• Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

  Aristotle

  Sex, Funny Marriage, Retiring

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• It takes a long time to become a lawyer because you need three things - a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and a desire to worship Satan.

  Craig Ferguson

  Law, Long, Desire

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• A bachelor is only half a man

  Louisa Lawson

  Men, Half

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