#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

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

— Margaret Way

#husband #marriage #wife #marriage

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

— Vicky Dreiling

#historical-romance #regency-england #historical

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

— Benson Bruno

#boring #divorce #divorce

A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once. ↗

— Ed Wynn

#makes #man #mistake #never #once

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's life is no life for a single man. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#life #man #single #single man

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

#come #crystallize #family #own #soften