#bachelor

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#dignity #freedom #good-governance #government #independence

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

The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#marriage #singles #women #marriage

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

— Benson Bruno

#boring #divorce #divorce

I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor. ↗

— Sara Gilbert

#am #ashamed #bachelor #i #i am

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction. ↗

— Sholom Aleichem

#comes #different #direction #each #man

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#bachelor #buying #furniture #like #marrying

Bachelorhood: all the fun of married life and more prosperity, leaving lots of descendants to boast of their father’s memory to their fellow inmates. ↗

— Bauvard

#children #funny #funny

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

— H. L. Mencken

#about #bachelors #know #married #married men

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#art #bachelor #boy #fault #lies