Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects, for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.8,'Of Marriage and the Single Life'.

Let's face it, the unmarried guys in New York suck.

-Bushnell, Candace
  Sex in the City.

I had often wondered why young women should marry, as they have so much more freedom, and so much more attention paid to them while unmarried, than when married.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, 25 Mar. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.