Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those for whom it seems that the great day which knows no morrow must be longer than for other men, since for them it is a void of promise, and from its dawn the moments steadily accumulate without any subsequent partition among offspring.

~ Marcel Proust

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A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

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He'd missed matching wits with her. Shall we duel with our lips? You may find yourself eating grass for breakfast.

~ Vicky Dreiling

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Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!

~ Margaret Way

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Xav sprinkled olive oil on his lettuce. 'Lola was very particular that it all had to fit properly.' 'Lola?' squeaked Diamond. I wanted to warn her not to rise to the bait Xav was dangling in front of her but it was too late. Xav added some Parmesan and pepper. 'Suspicious, Diamond? You should be. This is a bachelor party I'm organizing, not a school outing, and it is going to tick all of Trace's boxes. Lola is either a very efficient water sports instructor or an exotic dancing girl; I'll leave it your imagination.' I rolled my eyes at Diamond. 'Myabe she's both. I mean the guys will really go for that, I guess. Don't worry,Di, Luigi and his crew will not disappoint us girls.' Luigi was in fact Contessa Nicoletta's little bespectacled chef with whom I had been consulting about the menu for Friday, but the Benedicts weren't to know that. 'He has promised to provide something suitably spicy for our tastes.

~ Joss Stirling

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I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

~ Daniel J. Evans

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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

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In my bachelor days, the priority wasn't learning to cook.

~ Rob Lowe

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

~ Honoré De Balzac

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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

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

~ H. Jackson Brown

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

~ Lady Bird Johnson

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I just - I like the saccharin and the gooeyness of 'Bachelor,' and how just gross and like falsely romantic it is. Whereas, like, the 'Real Housewives' is just raw, and it's just - it's the fights that get me. It's just very uncomfortable for me.

~ Ken Marino

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

~ Phyllis Diller

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