Bachelors Quote by Peter De Vries

“... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.”

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Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness

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What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.

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“Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of [parenthood] is not that adults produce children but…

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I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.

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When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track.

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Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

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The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

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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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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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