Author: Jane Austen 1775-1817, British Novelist
Quote: Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Author: Jean De La BruyFre 1645-1696, French Classical Writer
Quote: 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.
Author: Charles Bukowski 1920-1994, German Poet, Short Stories Writer, Novelist
Quote: I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Author: Richard Crashaw
Quote: The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
Author: Finley Peter Dunne 1867-1936, American Journalist, Humorist
Quote: 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.
Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: 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.
Author: Germaine Greer 1939-, Australian Feminist Writer
Quote: 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.
Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: 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.
Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator
Quote: A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Author: Helen Rowland 1875-1950, American Journalist
Quote: A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
Author: Helen Rowland 1875-1950, American Journalist
Quote: Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
Author: Helen Rowland 1875-1950, American Journalist
Quote: Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
author: Helen Rowland 1875-1950, American Journalist
Quote: By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit