“One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.”
Source: Ender in Exile
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Orson Scott Card586
American science fiction novelist 1951Related quotes
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George Moore (novelist) (1852–1933) Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist
Act I http://books.google.com/books?id=HWs-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22All+reformers+are+bachelors%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage <br class="br">The Bending of the Bough (1900)
“There's only one secret to bachelor cooking — not caring how it tastes.”
P. J. O'Rourke (1947) American journalist
The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)
“Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.”
Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter
“There is no book so bad," said the bachelor, "but something good may be found in it.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 3.
Helen Rowland (1875–1950) American journalist
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“Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they'd be married, too.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
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) <br class="br">1910s
P. J. O'Rourke (1947) American journalist
And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right.
The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)
John Ford (dramatist) (1586–1639) dramatist
The Fancies, Chaste and Noble Act I, sc. iii.