#bachelor

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

— Phyllis Diller

#bachelor #guy #made #mistake #never

Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse. ↗

— Edward Lear

#caught #house #living #mouse #muffin

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. ↗

— Lady Bird Johnson

#bachelor #been #born #every #orphan

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#bachelors #consciences #married #married men #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

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

— Helen Rowland

#beauty #boy #forever #gets #idea

[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I trust hath been most acceptable to God. From the which if either ambition of high estate offered to me in marriage by the pleasure and appointment of my prince ... or if the eschewing of the danger of my enemies or the avoiding of the peril of death ... could have drawn or dissuaded me from this kind of life, I had not now remained in this estate wherein you see me. But so constant have I always continued in this determination ... yet is it most true that at this day I stand free from any other meaning that either I have had in times past or have at this present. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#choice #contentment #dignity #empowerment #freedom

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#courtship #empowerment #freedom #happiness #husbands

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#british-monarchy #british-royal-family #dignity #empowerment #freedom

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. ↗

— George Eliot

#function #go #home #husbands #i