These bachelor quotes will inspire you. A bachelor is a man who is not and has never been married.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging bachelor quotes, bachelor sayings, and bachelor proverbs.
Best Bachelor Quotes
- “A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.” ~ Sholom Aleichem
- “Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.” ~ Helen Rowland
- “The only good husbands stay bachelors: They’re too considerate to get married.” ~ Finley Peter Dunne
- “By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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“Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.” ~ Stephen Hawking
- “I haven’t seen this many men dressed in women’s clothing since my bachelor party” ~ Bruce Willis
- “Give “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.” ~ Desmond Morriswomen the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.” ~ P. J. O’Rourke
- “Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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“I’ll be honest. We copied everyone… the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.” ~ Maurice Gibb
- “Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor’s degree. Normally a Bachelor’s is sort of like being stamped ‘Prime US Beef.’ They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.” ~ David Eddings
- “I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.” ~ Sara Gilbert
- “Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?” ~ William Shakespeare
- “I have a bachelor’s and a master’s in jazz.” ~ Jon Secada
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“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
- “It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.” ~ H. L. Mencken
- “I did graduate with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1948.” ~ Daniel J. Evans
- “Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.” ~ Wanda Sykes
- “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.” ~ Samuel Johnson
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“Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.” ~ Mae West
- “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.” ~ Alexander Pope
- “My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.” ~ Linda Evans
- “A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman–a married man needs only an excuse.” ~ Helen Rowland
- “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
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“We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.” ~ Henny Youngman
- “Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.” ~ Thomas Fuller
- “A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.” ~ Helen Rowland
- “I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.” ~ Kate DiCamillo
- “The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.” ~ Tommy Chong
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“Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.” ~ Jean Harris
- “Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and Ph.D. levels in these areas is declining.” ~ Mark Kennedy
- “A bachelor’s life is no life for a single man.” ~ Samuel Goldwyn , Bachelor quotes life
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“Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.” ~ Francis Bacon
- “A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.” ~ Phyllis Diller
- “I declare that I am a bachelor.” ~ Julian Eltinge
- “Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.” ~ Nora Ephron
- “A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.” ~ Helen Rowland
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“When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “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.” ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
- “Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.” ~ Lady Bird Johnson
- “Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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“A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.” ~ Francis Bacon
- “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
- “Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.” ~ Orson Scott Card
- “If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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“About two-thirds of bachelor’s degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they’re graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.” ~ Arne Duncan
- “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.” ~ Desmond Morris
- “A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.” ~ Helen Rowland
- “I’m probably the only member of the ‘Bachelor’ cast without an agent!” ~ Jake Pavelka
- “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.” ~ Joseph Addison
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“I don’t think I’m destined to be the eternal bachelor.” ~ Jesse Metcalfe
- “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.” ~ George Jean Nathan
- “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.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
- “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.” ~ Jean de la Bruyere , Before marriage bachelor quotes
- “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.” ~ Charles Bukowski
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“I want to be the most eligible bachelor in New York City.” ~ Andrej Pejic
- “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” ~ Jane Austen
- “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.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.” ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- “As a rule, you see, I’m not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across premieval swamps and Uncle James’s letter about Cousin Mabel’s peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle (‘Please read this carefully and send it on Jane’) the clan has a tendency to ignore me. It’s one of the advantages I get from being a bachelor – and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that.” ~ P. G. Wodehouse
- “A bachelor is a guy who leans toward women – but not far enough to lose his balance.” ~ Earl Wilson
