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The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
Oct 2, 2025
I don't know that I came across as being real competitive on 'The Bachelor,' although maybe I did a little bit on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I am a born competitor. The bigger the challenge the better!
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
I declare that I am a bachelor.
Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
I want to be the most eligible bachelor in New York City.
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.
A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.
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.
The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.
You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
I don't think I'm destined to be the eternal bachelor.
A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.
Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.
The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.
When people are on 'The Bachelor' it gives them the opportunity to put their best foot forward, especially when you're around the 'Bachelor' or the 'Bachelorette;' that one person who you're vying for attention with.
I myself have participated in girl-on-girl shows for men that would ask for it, of which were very, very many. It is a popular request, especially at bachelor parties. It also paid a much higher dividend. Also when I worked the escort services, certain male/female clients would call and ask for a male/male team and the escort services that I worked for provided this specific request.
Jasper? What do vampires do for bachelor parties? You're not taking him to a strip club, are you?
I actually got stabbed at my friend's bachelor party. In real life.
Bachelor parties are designed for those who are sad to see the passing of their single days. I couldn’t be more eager to have mine behind me. So there’s really no point.
Many guys see relationships with women as a zero-sum game: If she wins, he loses. Marriage is the ultimate contest: Her job is to get him to capitulate to marriage. So many men see marriage as the "end of freedom," the end of boyhood. That's why bachelor parties are supposed to revel in that boyish irresponsibility "one last time." So many guys figure, "Why rush into something that means basically that you'll be a prisoner forever?"
We're down in Mexico. It's for a bachelor party, so we go into a Mexican strip club... I go back with this woman down a murky hallway, and then without missing a beat - these ladies are all business - she goes, 'Go ahead, take out your dong.' 'I'm not taking out my dong. And by the way, who uses the word dong? If you want to be hip to the lingo, they're not using the word dong up in the States.
Bachelor parties are for the married guys.
I haven't seen this many men dressed in women's clothing since my bachelor party
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.
It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts, That all sin is divided into two parts. One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very important
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
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.
I love to think of the whole universe together as one eternal fact. I love to think that everything is alive; that crystallization is itself a step toward joy. I love to think that when a bud bursts into blossom: it feels a thrill. I love to have the universe full of feeling and full of joy, and not full of simple dead, inert matter, managed by an old bachelor for all eternity.
He quietly groaned. Again and again, he’d witnessed this phenomenon with his friends. They got married. They were happy in that sated, grateful way of infrequently pleasured men with a now-steady source of coitus. Then they went about crowing as if they’d invented the institution of matrimony and stood to earn a profit for every bachelor they could convert.
I only have a Bachelor's Degree but I've had professors who have instilled this kind of academic rigor in me where I don't make any generalizations or closed statements. There always has to be room for interpretation.