Famous lines and quotations about being single and living on my own:

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet."

Mae West (1892 - 1980)

"Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others."

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

"A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever."

Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950)

"I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it."

Gary Shandling

"There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again."

Clint Eastwood (1930 - )

"Romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece."

Matt Groening (1954 - ), The Simpsons

"For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have."

Woody Allen (1935 - )

"Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last."

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