A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. - (Rowland, Helen - Bachelor)

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor. - (Rowland, Helen - Bachelor)

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. - (Bruyere, Jean De La - Bachelor)

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. - (Franklin, Benjamin - Bachelor)

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. - (Mencken, H. L. - Bachelor)

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. - (Mencken, H. L. - Bachelor)

By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful. - (Wilde, Oscar - Bachelor)

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. - (Bacon, Francis - Bachelor)

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. - (Crashaw, Richard - Bachelor)

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. - (Austen, Jane - Bachelor)

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. - (Mencken, H. L. - Bachelor)

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join. - (Pope, Alexander - Bachelor)

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. - (Rowland, Helen - Bachelor)

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men. - (Wilde, Oscar - Bachelor)

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. - (Bukowski, Charles - Bachelor)