Bachelor
A bachelor is a man who is not married (see single person) or who is not in a pair bond. It includes "men who live independently, outside of their parents' home and other institutional settings, who are neither married nor cohabitating".
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Famous quotes containing the word bachelor:
“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 Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“The wonderful scope and variety of female loveliness, if too long suffered to sway us without decision, shall finally confound all power of selection. The confirmed bachelor is, in America, at least, quite as often the victim of a too profound appreciation of the infinite charmingness of woman, as made solitary for life by the legitimate empire of a cold and tasteless temperament.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)