A Quote by Samuel Johnson

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Samuel Johnson

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Marriage Men Bachelors Married Married Men Wives

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

Oscar Wilde

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

H. L. Mencken

the three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives. 3. Men who wear gold chains give gold rings.

Linda Sunshine

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

Thomas Fuller

Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.

Herman Melville

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

Marilyn Monroe

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

Nicolas Chamfort

Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.

Wilkie Collins

Married men don't get their own apartments 'to escape' their lives with their wives.

Kenya Moore

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

Finley Peter Dunne

I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.

J. M. W. Turner

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

Susan B. Anthony

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

Bertrand Russell

A survey released today found that men spend twice as much on their mistresses for Christmas as they do on their wives. On the other hand, men spend half their income on the wives when the wife finds out about the mistress. So it all balances out.