I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage.

- Dick Van Dyke

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

Chemistry has energy and it's meant to be felt.

- Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK

Which crime has the female sex committed to be sentenced to the harsh necessity which consists of being locked up all life either as a prisoner or a slave? I call the nuns prisoners and the married women slaves.

- Christina Queen of Sweden

Hostel is one phase in a man's life that teaches him what Indian mothers fail to teach their children despite the use of potential weapons like rolling pin,broom stick, wiper so on and henceforth. Who knows if you are luckier, you might just experience your bachelorhood as a paying guest.

- Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade

Cannot put a finger on what precedes the other, bachelor/spinsterhood or self-obsession.

- Sandeep Sahajpal

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Nicholas broke the seal and scanned the contents. He looked up at Marcus with a chuckle. “Why, it appears you may get your wish for perpetual bachelorhood after all. She wants to end your engagement.”Marcus started from his chair. “The hell she does! What’s possessed her?”“Perhaps she realizes your extreme reluctance to tie the knot after waiting…what is it? Five years since your betrothal announcement?”“Six,” Marcus snapped. “But who’s counting.”“Perhaps Miss Trent?” Nick needled with a quirk of his lips.- A BREACH OF PROMISE

- Victoria Vane

I say this explicitly, that it is impossible for me to marry. That is the way it is for me. My temper is a mortal enemy to this horrible yoke, which I would not accept, even if I thus would become the ruler of the world.

- Christina Queen of Sweden

I'm single because I was born that way.

- Mae West