Quotes on Bachelors

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

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

In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

You know how funerals are not for the dead, they’re for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they’re for the uncommitted.

I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped and said to myself, 'This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I'm a writer.'

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

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

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

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

There’s a lot I don’t tell my father when he calls asking after Amy. He wouldn’t understand that she has no interest in getting married and was, in fact, quite happy to break up with her live-in boyfriend, whom she replaced with an imaginary boyfriend named Ricky. The last time she was asked out by a successful bachelor, Amy hesitated before saying, ‘Thanks for asking, but I’m really not into white guys right now.

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.

When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.