Bachelors Quote by H. L. Mencken

“Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.”

H. L. Mencken

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Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead.

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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

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Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others

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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

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A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

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There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.

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Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

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It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

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The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.

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“They say bachelors have all the fun. Not so. You just get old and full of sand, nasty.”

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