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Bachelors should be heavily taxed.
It's not fair that some men should
be happier than others.
- Oscar Wilde
Nowadays, all the married
men live like bachelors,
and all the bachelors like
married men.
- Oscar Wilde
A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy
who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.
- Don Quinn
Bachelors have consciences,
married men have wives.
- Mencken
A bachelor just turned 40, began feeling desperate.
"I went to a singles bar," he told a friend, "walked
over to this 20-year-old woman and asked,
'Where have you been all my life?' She said,
"Teething.'"
- Mack McCignnis
A bachelor asked the computer
to find him the perfect mate:
"I want a companion who is small
and cute, loves water sports,
and enjoys group activities."
Back came the answer:
"Marry a penguin."
- Kevin Benningfield
It's the bachelor who thinks he's safe who
comes down with the worst wallop.
- Collinson Owen
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast,
a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
- La Bruyere
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that
he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
- Helen Rowland
The bachelor's admired freedom is
often a yoke, for the freer a man
is to himself, the greater slave
he often is to the whim of others.
- George Jean Nathan
What's the definition of a bachelor pad?
All the house plants are dead,
but there's something growing in the refrigerator.
- Marshal Williams in The Los Angeles Times
Commenting on one of Iowa's burning issues in 1838, a local newspaper reported, "So anxious are our settlers for wives that they never ask a single lady for her age. All they require is teeth." And Iowa was not alone with the problem. Even as late as 1865 the ratio of men to women was 3 to 1 in California, 8 to 1 in Nevada, and 20 to 1 in Colorado. Once they had staked their claims or established their homesteads, all those bachelor frontiersmen who had headed west on their own were more than ready for a little female companionship, or more importantly, wives.
Many means were devised for filling the need, but the most efficient solution was the "mailorder bride." Some men advertised for a wife in the personals columns of what were called "hear-and-hand newspapers, and proposed after a brief courtship by correspondence. "I love to think of thee and think that thare is a day a coming when wee will be hapy together," wrote one young man in 1853, who then added, "I live a lonsom and desolate life."
Where whole groups of men wanted wives, a "jobber' might be hired to send a "bulk shipment" of suitable feminine candidates from back East or from overseas. Romance was hardly considered in these transactions. The woman who answered an ad for such a roundup had usually resigned herself to spinsterhood if she remained at home. She went off knowing full well that she would have to settle for whatever was offered, including the possibility of a man with "vile wilderness habits" who might also be twice her age, and living conditions of extreme hardship.
Judging from one contemporary description of a meeting that took place in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1844, the matchups that resulted from these bulk shipments could be haphazard to say the least.
Reporting on the arrival of a contingent of 41 single women aboard a Mississippi River steamboat, the writer recounted the usual way in which "paying addresses" and getting "hitched" took place. Even before the women had the chance to disembark, it seemed, gentlemen on shore had begun calling out through speaking trumpets: "Miss with blue ribbon on your bonnet, will you take me?" or "Hallow thar, gal with a cinnamon-colored shawl! if agreeable we will jine."
Richest of All Bachelors:
Larry J. Ellison, USA, is
estimated to be worth
$47 billion. He has been
CEO of Oracle Corporation
since he founded the
company in 1977.
Bachelor's Bait Cocktail
1 1/2 oz. Gin
1 Egg White
1 dash Orange Bitters
1/2 teaspoon Grenadine
Shake with ice and strain into
cocktail glass.
who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.
- Don Quinn
married men have wives.
- Mencken
"I went to a singles bar," he told a friend, "walked
over to this 20-year-old woman and asked,
'Where have you been all my life?' She said,
"Teething.'"
- Mack McCignnis
to find him the perfect mate:
"I want a companion who is small
and cute, loves water sports,
and enjoys group activities."
Back came the answer:
"Marry a penguin."
- Kevin Benningfield
comes down with the worst wallop.
- Collinson Owen
a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
- La Bruyere
he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
- Helen Rowland
often a yoke, for the freer a man
is to himself, the greater slave
he often is to the whim of others.
- George Jean Nathan
All the house plants are dead,
but there's something growing in the refrigerator.
- Marshal Williams in The Los Angeles Times
Commenting on one of Iowa's burning issues in 1838, a local newspaper reported, "So anxious are our settlers for wives that they never ask a single lady for her age. All they require is teeth." And Iowa was not alone with the problem. Even as late as 1865 the ratio of men to women was 3 to 1 in California, 8 to 1 in Nevada, and 20 to 1 in Colorado. Once they had staked their claims or established their homesteads, all those bachelor frontiersmen who had headed west on their own were more than ready for a little female companionship, or more importantly, wives.
Richest of All Bachelors:
Larry J. Ellison, USA, is
estimated to be worth
$47 billion. He has been
CEO of Oracle Corporation
since he founded the
company in 1977.
Bachelor's Bait Cocktail
1 1/2 oz. Gin
1 Egg White
1 dash Orange Bitters
1/2 teaspoon Grenadine
Shake with ice and strain into
cocktail glass.
