#bachelor

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ... ↗

— William Shakespeare

#blessings #empowerment #freedom #happiness #husbands

In the end, single people either get boring, or they stay divorced. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#boring #divorce #divorce

A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#life #man #single #single man

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#began #idea #life #man #new

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#bachelorhood #empowerment #freedom #independence #individuality

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#bachelor #guy #made #mistake #never

I declare that I am a bachelor. ↗

— Julian Eltinge

#bachelor #declare #i #i am

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

— Mae West

#double-entendre #empowerment #freedom #independence #institutions

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters. ↗

— Jane Austen

#classics #marriage #men #possessiveness #single-men

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

— Honore de Balzac

#make #pregnancy #sly #smile #some