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Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Bachelor

Bachelor, a peacock, betrothed a lion, married an ass.Spanish.

A bachelor’s bed is the pleasantest.Cicero.

An old bachelor is only the half of a pair of scissors.Ben. Franklin.

Bachelors’ wives and maids’ children are well taught.

Commend a wedded life, but keep thyself a bachelor.

Hold your hands off other folks’ bairns till you get some of your own.

If you trust a man let him be a bachelor; let him be a bachelor.George Eliot.

Marriage has its pains, but a bachelor’s life has no pleasures.Woloffs.—(Africa.)

Praise a wife, but remain a bachelor.Italian.

Who would avoid all strife, should be a bachelor.

Wisely I say, I am a bachelor.Shakespeare.

Whoever is free from wrangling is a bachelor.St. Jerome.