Bachelor

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

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(118 votes)   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
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(117 votes)   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
1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(99 votes)   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.

Germaine Greer
1939-, Australian Feminist Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(99 votes)   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
1709-1784, British Author

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(94 votes)   Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Helen Rowland
1875-1950, American Journalist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(81 votes)   I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Richard Crashaw

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(81 votes)   The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

Finley Peter Dunne
1867-1936, American Journalist, Humorist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(80 votes)   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
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(78 votes)   Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(78 votes)   Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

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

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website