Quotations on Bachelor

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

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

~ Oscar Wilde

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

~ H.L. Mencken

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

~ H.L. Mencken

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

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

~ Jean de La Bruyère

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

~ Finley Peter Dunne

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

~ Richard Crashaw

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

~ Helen Rowland