To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar

And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those for whom it seems that the great day which knows no morrow must be longer than for other men, since for them it is a void of promise, and from its dawn the moments steadily accumulate without any subsequent partition among offspring.

He's such an old bachelor that the way he cleans out his fireplace is to carry the ashes through the house, shovel-load at a time, and dump em out through the front door.

Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese and kisses.

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

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

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

He was himself a homeless bachelor with a past, much in debt, and nothing gave more pleasure than to envy his friends their wives and comforts and to speak of them intimately and disparagingly.