“One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.”
Source: Ender in Exile
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Orson Scott Card 586
American science fiction novelist 1951Related quotes
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“There is no book so bad," said the bachelor, "but something good may be found in it.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 3.
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“Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they'd be married, too.”
A Little Book in C major http://books.google.com/books?id=EAJbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Bachelors+know+more+about+women+than+married+men+If+they+didn't+they'd+be+married+too%22&pg=PA61#v=onepage (1916) ; later published in A Mencken Crestomathy (1949)
1910s
And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right.
The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)